Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd have applied to construct up to 339 turbines over three offshore wind farms - 22km (13.5 miles) from the Caithness coast.
In mid-July, the department's Mineral Management Services, which controls the mineral rights on federal lands, asserted its jurisdiction over renewable energy projects--wind, wave, solar and tidal energy--on federal waters in the Outer Continental Shelf.
In fact, back in July Mr Paulson had argued in favour of a formal mechanism to take over and wind down non-banks, such as investment banks and insurers, in an orderly way, much as already exists for retail banks.
Last week, a clutch of European countries launched plans to develop a vast network of offshore wind-farms over an area of about 293, 438 square miles in the North Sea.
Now, Mr. Geithner and his minions are mulling over three options to wind down Fannie and Freddie over a period of 5-7 years.
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Before the experiment in the hanger could begin, researchers calculated the pressures the house would experience in a small-scale study conducted at the University's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory -- which has over 40 years of expertise testing high-rise buildings and bridges.
They say that the area is environmentally damaged anyway, thanks to drainage and over-grazing, and that the new wind farms would have only a minor impact.
Maik Taylor tipped over Marek Jankulovski's wind assisted free-kick before Radek Sirl's inswinging corner was headed just wide from eight yards by Radoslav Kovac.
Wind-whipped whitecaps curled over the top of the flood walls near the Claiborne Avenue railroad bridge while others poured across the levee in the Gentilly neighborhood, north of downtown.
Simpson used his long putter for his third and it looked set to finish close to the cup until a massive gust of wind saw it roll over six-feet past.
Wind-driven swells slapped over the tops of breakwaters and turned waves into a churning froth under piers at points such as Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach on the Los Angeles County coast.
Usually, the prevailing south-westerly wind would take the ash cloud away from Europe and over the polar region, but a high-pressure area is bringing it over Europe, where it is sitting and barely moving as the ash spreads.
Many people use a float to wind down or to get over jet-lag -- as a deeply relaxing float has much in common with a deep sleep.
Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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More snow is expected over the weekend and a "bitterly cold south-easterly wind" will remain, the Met Office added.
Some Fin Reg provisions like prop trading and hedge funds phase in over many years, but resolution authority containing these wind-down provisions starts immediately.
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Prepare for a wild, wind-in-your-hair ride over the waves -- all totally worth it when you are close enough to smell a whale's breath.
Haddin's wicket came in the first over 21-year-old fast bowler Kemar Roach bowled with the wind on day two, having only bowled four overs with it on Wednesday, when he had Shane Watson caught behind.
Jones later sent a clearance over the dead-ball line as he sought to take advantage of the wind at his back.
Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.
Sexton knocked over a ninth-minute penalty to register his first full international points in swirling wind and rain.
The FDIC has locked horns with other agencies over who should be the new systemic-risk regulator and who should have authority to wind down failing non-banks.
America has doubled the amount of electricity we get from wind over the last four years, enough power for nearly 13 million homes -- clean, renewable energy.
His effort was eclipsed by Walker who closed the half with a wind-assisted penalty from five metres inside his own half that bounced over off the crossbar.
Sinovel's contract implies it will turn out 10 gigawatts of windmill capacity--twice what is expected for all of China over the next few years, the Global Wind Energy Council says.
He is back on terra firma when he argues that the euro will put a strong wind behind the liberalisation of capital markets and will help set Europe's over-regulated economies free.
"Danny mentions Roy Hodgson and myself in that context that we didn't wind players up, " said Gradi, who also makes the point that over-aggressive tackling puts the perpetrator at just as much risk as the player being tackled.
Pacific Hydro already runs Australia's largest wind farm, a 35-turbine, 52-megawatt development that is spread over a number of grazing properties at Ararat in western Victoria.
At Galore the four-year construction project includes an 84-mile road that will wind across the wilderness, through a 2.5-mile mountain tunnel and over at least ten bridges.
In the Australian state of Victoria, concern over the threat that turbines could pose to the rare orange-bellied parrot nearly put paid to a wind farm, the Bald Hills project, in 2006.
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