Plans for a three-year wind power project on Jersey's offshore reefs have been approved.

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Energy Management, a 28-year-old energy company based in New England, plans to build a 468-megawatt wind power facility off the coast of Massachusetts: the Cape Wind project.

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The federal government recently announced two initiatives to open up millions of acres of public land for solar power project development, and it highlighted seven wind and solar projects on public land in a press release on Tuesday.

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Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.

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National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.

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The Avalon wind project will generate up to 300 megawatts while the solar part of power plant will produce 100 megawatts.

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While that project is further along than other proposals, several other offshore wind-power projects have been proposed for New York, New Jersey, Florida, California and Delaware.

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