The Mayor and Council on Monday heard an in-depth presentation from U.S. Wind Project Development Director Paul Rich on his company’s proposal to develop a wind energy farm off the coast of Ocean City totaling as many as 187 five-story tall wind turbines. The U.S. Wind project is one of two currently under consideration by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC), which will decide by mid-May the company to ultimately develop the offshore wind farm.
The other candidate, Deepwater Wind, has proposed a project of a much smaller scale and that company will make a presentation to the Mayor and Council in a couple of weeks. On Monday, however, the focus was on the proposed U.S. Wind project and after seeing some visual renderings of what the project could look like from the beach in Ocean City, the town’s elected officials had seen enough and voted to send a letter of opposition, not directly to the U.S. Wind proposal specifically, but the prospect of having 480-foot tall wind turbines churning offshore in clear view from the beach in general.
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7 comments:
Hideous.
Offshore wind power is even more cost inefficient than land based due to high installation and maintenance costs. Either will sent your electricity cost through the roof.
Better than oil rigs. OC better be careful what they oppose.
Its only a rendering of a perfect weather day, when one (at shoreline) can only see 7 miles away. The higher shore angle (meaning moving further back on shore), the further away you can see out on the horizon.
Same applies the higher you are (OC high rises), then you will be able to see 12 miles away. On the beach - NO, high rise - YES.
Again, perfect weather day we can see 7 miles out. Haze, stormy weather, night time - NO, can't see anything.
An artist's rendering or any drawn pictures should not influence opinions - an expert (i.e., engineer) should!
Ugly don't ruin the view...I go there to look out and only see boats and the horizon..not ugly turbines..if u want to see what it will be like..go to the gulf and look at the oil platforms..also very ugly.
Stop using common sense, people on here don't understand what that is lol
"Ugly" is in the eye of the beholder. Very subjective description.
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