OCEAN CITY — The distance of the turbines in a proposed wind energy project off the coast of Ocean City continued to be a hot topic this week with resort officials vowing to explore their options.
Last spring, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) approved one of two proposed offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Ocean City to US Wind. The US Wind project involves the placement of 32 wind turbines off the resort coast at a distance of 17 miles, or the farthest east area of its federally-designated Wind Energy Area (WEA). Throughout the process, the town of Ocean City has generally supported the US Wind project, but has strongly opposed the placement of any turbines within 26 miles of the resort coast, or the distance from which town officials believe the massive turbines would not be visible from the Ocean City shoreline.
In recent months, the battle over the distance of the wind turbines from the resort coast has been waged on many fronts. The Mayor and Council approved a resolution expressing their displeasure with the distance at 17 miles. Last month, a bill in the General Assembly that would have moved the turbines 26 miles offshore failed to get out of committee.
In between, both sides have engaged in an aggressive letter-writing campaign. Last week, resort officials were disappointed when a significant contract for the US Wind project went to a Louisiana firm and that US Wind had chosen not to renew its membership with the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce.
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4 comments:
I am unaware if any windmill project erected out in the ocean that has ever even broke even and paid for itself before maintenance and destruction ate them up.
In fact, I haven't seen a report that any land based wind farm has ever paid for itself or turned a real profit.
And I've looked extensively!
Haven't they learned anything from Chesapeake College?
Why do these idiot politicians keep getting stuck on this crap. The only people that benefit from a wind farm is the company that sells and installs them.
Wind farms will never even break even for the cost to build. Wind farm lead to grid instability and are not environmentally friendly.
Somebody is getting a kick back
I read somewhere in one report that the plan was to run a large cable from the wind turbines thru Indian River inlet and up the river to the IR power plant. Is this true and if so have any impact studies been done? Thanks
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