Angus Campbell said questions needed to be asked about the costs and time scale of the link, which would allow electricity generated by island wind and marine renewables to be transmitted to the mainland.
In 2007, the roughly 1, 000 year-round residents of Vinalhaven, a long and narrow island located about 15 miles off the coast of central Maine in the Penobscot Bay, decided that building a wind farm on the island was the only way they would survive endlessly elevated electricity prices.
National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.
There's currently only a single wind turbine on a small outer island providing energy to Hong Kong, the rest of the city just doesn't get enough wind for traditional turbines to do any good.
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Thanks to the hydro-wind project, the island will no longer need to import 6, 000 tons of diesel by boat, saving costs and cutting its CO2 emissions down by 18, 700 tons annually.
In August, the New York Times and The Boston Post published in-depth stories that indulged the psychological delusions of the two or three disgruntled residents and uniformly ignored the views of the majority of island residents who continue to support the wind farm.
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This devastation dates from 1974, when Mitsubishi shut down an 84-year-old coal mine on the wind-blown, storm-swept island of Hashima, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of town.
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As the wind started to whip around our Long Island home, my husband Michael and I fell into our typical roles when it comes to threat anticipation: I believed that the sky was falling while Michael believed that nothing serious was going to happen.
The wind park has been moved farther away from Nantucket island and its breadth has been reduced to make it less visible to holidaymakers there.
In one of the biggest clean energy stories from the past week, a coalition of utility companies are planning to team up to construct a wind farm 12 miles off the coast of Long Island.
The strong wind caused a number of trees to fall down across the island, blocking some roads, including at Colborne Road, La Brigade and Rue du Friquet.
Even though several days of cold, wind and rain gave way to warmer spring temperatures at Phillip Island, the Spaniard was feeling under the weather, struggling to the sixth fastest lap time.
Group member Paul Madden said visitors to the island had also signed the petition but the strength of feeling about the wind turbines issue was such that group could "easily have doubled" the number of signatures.
Less than two years later, a fleet of three 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines started turning on a hill located near the center of the island.
To match that output using wind energy, you'd need a land area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
The Renewable Energy Commission has also been looking at the potential for offshore tidal and wind power, which Deputy Duhamel said could play a significant role in improving the island's energy security in the future.
They backed a yachting syndicate that competed in the America's Cup. (Their vessel, equipped with such Loomis-inspired gadgets as a custom-designed wind tracker, came in dead last.) They acquired most of Hilton Head Island, S.C. for use as their private playground.
Blount Boats in Rhode Island recently reached agreement with South Boats Special Projects to build US-flagged catamarans to service offshore wind facilities.
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The wind operators have incurred several thousands of dollars to respond to endless complaints lodged by a group of island residents.
While the residents of Samso can take advantage of their island's blustery weather, open spaces and low-population density to be carbon neutral, the success of wind energy on a global scale may come down to simple economics.
It estimates more than 11% of the island's 68, 900 population has put their name to the petition which calls for a ban on commercial wind turbines in any Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a separation distance of at least 1.5km (0.9 miles) from housing.
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