United States President Barack Obama utilized a broad-ranging Earth Day address in Iowa recently to annunciate new rules for offshore alternate energy projects, including the planned Nantucket Sound wind farm. “Through the Department of Interior, we are establishing a program to authorize – for the first time – the leasing of federal waters for projects [...]
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A power conflict between two federal agencies that has disappointed offshore renewable energy exploitation was determined this week. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff signed an accord that clears up their agencies’ territorial obligations for chartering and certifying inexhaustible energy projects on the United States [...]
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A Seattle-based company is hoping to convert the motion of the ocean into electricity. Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company has called for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permits to harness energy from waves off the coastline of six states.
In all, the company would build seven harnessing sites – in federal waters off California, Hawaii, [...]
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