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03/18/2008
Deep-Water Wind Farm Proposed off MA
Dutch Company Proposes to Build Deep-Water Wind Farm off Massachusetts
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Posted by: Susan Altman
Stephanie Ebbert and Beth Daley wrote in the March 15th Boston Globe about a proposal for a wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Blue H, a subsidiary of a Dutch company, wants to build 120 floating wind turbines in deep water 23 miles off Martha's Vineyard, and is seeking government approval to install a test turbine. However, the float technology to be used, which is modeled after that used for deep-sea oil rigs, has never been applied to wind turbines in the deep ocean. Read the full story in the Boston Globe.