Cape Wind Approved

Reader Contribution by Anna Flin
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Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm project to be established in the United States, was approved by the Obama administration on April 28, 2010.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the decision at a news conference at the Massachusetts Statehouse, emphasizing the potential for similar wind energy initiatives in the future.

“This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast,” Salazar says of the proposed 130 offshore wind turbines to be located in Nantucket Sound, a shallow area of water about five miles from the Massachusetts coastline.

Expected to produce up to 468 megawatts of wind power, the promise of Cape Wind answers an overwhelming energy need. According to President of Cape Wind Associates Jim Gordon, 27 coastal states use 73 percent of the Nation’s electricity, and the construction of Cape Wind will allow these states to obtain this energy from a local, renewable resource.

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