#Offshorewind

How will offshore wind impact local fishing?

3 years ago
There is a plan being proposed by US Wind to bring power cables from its wind farm off the coast of...

US Wind proposes wind farm landfall under 3R’s Beach

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Almost three years ago, Danish power company Ørsted introduced a proposal that would have paved the...

Wind power issues to ponder is theme of symposium

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Loss of viewshed, impacts to commercial fishing and effects on animal life were the primary...

Ørsted vessel moves in for near-shore survey work

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A large survey vessel conducting work for Ørsted has set up shop just off the coast of Delaware,...

New report suggests path forward for wind power in...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A new report from the state and University of Delaware’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind...

Ørsted resuming survey work for wind farm cable

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Beginning with a sonar-carrying vessel combing the floor of Indian River Bay, Ørsted has announced...

Ørsted selected to expand windfarm area off Delaware...

Chris Flood
4 years ago
The Maryland Public Service Commission announced Dec. 17 it has selected Skipjack Wind 2, an...

Ørsted continuing search for land-based connection site

Chris Flood
4 years ago
For more than a week now, a 145-foot lift boat has been off the coast of Delaware helping conduct a...

Rehoboth Beach asked to opine on future wind farms

Chris Flood
4 years ago
Rehoboth Beach officials have been approached by Ocean City, Md. Mayor Rick Meehan about taking an...

Ørsted submits bid for more wind turbines

Chris Flood
4 years ago
Despite continued delays for its first proposed wind farm off Delaware’s coast, Danish-based Ørsted...

Mike Dunmyer to lead local outreach efforts for US Wind

Chris Flood
4 years ago
US Wind, an offshore wind developer looking to build off the coast of Maryland, recently announced...

More delays for wind farm off Delaware coast

Chris Flood
4 years ago
For the second time in less than a year, and this time for much longer, Ørsted is pushing back the...

850-foot-tall turbines OK’d for Skipjack Wind Farm

Chris Flood
5 years ago
Despite public concerns over a ruined viewshed, the Maryland Public Service Commission has approved...

If not Fenwick Island State Park, then where?

Chris Flood
5 years ago
A couple of weeks ago, after months of public scrutiny, Ørsted announced it was no longer going to...

Ørsted no longer interested in Fenwick Island State...

Chris Flood
5 years ago
Citing a large portion of undisturbed wetlands, Ørsted is backing out of a proposal that would...

Survey results for Ørsted connection facility released

Chris Flood
5 years ago
The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has released the survey results...

Ørsted announces year of delay for off-shore wind...

Chris Flood
5 years ago
It’s been nearly four years since the June 2017 announcement of Skipjack Wind Farm, a 120-megawatt...

Ørsted hosts supplier day for transmission connection

Chris Flood
5 years ago
Like everyone else, Ørsted, the Danish company looking to build the proposed Skipjack Wind Farm off...

Public submits robust input on turbines

Chris Flood
5 years ago
After two month-long extensions, the state closed public comment Jan. 15 on Ørsted’s controversial...

Turbine hearing set for Ocean City Convention Center

Chris Flood
5 years ago
Roughly three weeks ago, Maryland Public Service Commission granted a request from Ocean City, Md...

Public hearing set on turbine size of ocean wind farms

Chris Flood
6 years ago
Following a request for public comment on proposed changes to the size of future wind farm turbines...

Coast Guard seeks new anchorage areas in bay, ocean

Chris Flood
6 years ago
In advance of offshore development, primarily wind power, the U.S. Coast Guard has issued a request...

Study: Tourism increased at nation’s first wind farm

Chris Flood
6 years ago
A University of Rhode Island study released this summer suggests Block Island, home to the nation’s...

Hundreds question Fenwick Island wind power connection

Chris Flood
6 years ago
Lack of transparency, loss of natural environment and a general disdain that Maryland officials...

Fenwick officials frustrated by Skipjack proposal

Chris Flood
6 years ago
At its first meeting since a plan for a transmission connection from the proposed Skipjack Wind...

‘Tilting at...’

Jim Paterson
6 years ago

Comment period on wind farm connection extended

Chris Flood
6 years ago
State officials have extended the deadline to comment on the proposed Skipjack Wind Farm...

Offshore wind farm raises economic, environmental...

Chris Flood
6 years ago
Citing recent studies reporting economic effects of wind energy on tourism, the Caesar Rodney...

Ørsted proposal should be firmly embraced

6 years ago
If a set of core values were to be developed to guide landuse decisions in Sussex County, one could...

New technology sparks larger wind turbines

Chris Flood
6 years ago
As wind power technology develops, wind turbines reflect the changes. But unlike computers, which...

Wind power connection at Fenwick Island State Park?

Chris Flood
6 years ago
A little over two years ago, the Maryland Public Service Commission awarded offshore wind renewable...

Could Delaware Bay host future offshore wind port?

Dennis Forney
7 years ago
If you look east anywhere along the Delaware coast you won’t see it. But out there, above the waves...

East Coast is Saudi Arabia of wind power

Chris Flood
7 years ago
It’s been about 18 months since five wind turbines off Block Island, R.I., began providing the...

Wind farm off Delaware to benefit Maryland

Chris Flood
8 years ago
A proposed wind farm in federally-regulated waters due east of Delaware’s coastline, which has seen...