Governor Martin O’Malley this week introduced his Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013, perhaps moving a future offshore wind energy farm as close as 10 miles off the coast of Ocean City closer to reality. The long-range plan calls for an above-ground or underground transmission line coming ashore at some point and connecting the future wind energy turbines to an electric power distribution facility somewhere on the mainland.
Called the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC), the network of underwater transmission lines would create a superhighway of sorts for moving the energy harnessed by future offshore wind farms to millions of electric service customers throughout the mid-Atlantic region. The AWC is currently exploring several options for a landfall for its transmission line along the Maryland coast including one proposal that had the line crossing Assateague.
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Stick 'em in the mountains for crying out loud
ReplyDeleteWindmills have put the dems at the fork in the road.They want wind energy but their special interest buddies don't want to see them from their waterfront homes.What a klindrom.
ReplyDeleteGuess what the turbines will do to the fishing for miles around their location... Oh well, fishing isn't that good in Ocean City anymore, is it?
ReplyDeleteNatural gas is the way to go,not wind farms that raise the electric bills on us working citizens.
ReplyDeletethank God. send these tree hugging, greenies back to their caves. enough is enough. we have lost billions in tax dollars to feed these monsters and their hair brained schemes. they are; without a doubt, air-head elitists.
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