OCEAN CITY — One of the two companies holding permits for offshore wind energy farms off the coast announced it was planning on using 12-megwatt, 853-foot turbines described as the “world’s largest offshore wind turbine,” making the resort area a guinea pig of sorts for the fledgling industry in the U.S.
Last week, in response to a letter from Ocean City officials to Gov. Larry Hogan reiterating the town’s position not on renewable energy, but more specifically the distance of the proposed turbines from the shore, US Wind pointed out it was currently planning to use eight-megawatt turbines that would measure 643-feet in height. US Wind officials said despite the change in height, the increased capacity of the taller turbines would allow the company to reduce the number of turbines off the Ocean City coast by half, from the proposed 64 to 32.
Just days later, officials from the Danish company Orsted, which holds the permit for a second wind energy area (WEA) approved in 2017 by the Maryland Public Service Commission, announced it has chosen GE Renewable Energy as its preferred turbine supplier for two of its offshore wind energy projects in the mid-Atlantic region, including the Skipjack project off Maryland’s coast. Orsted’s other proposed project in its mid-Atlantic cluster is off the coast of New Jersey.
As a result, Orsted is now proposing to deploy GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 12-megawatt wind turbines in its Skipjack project off Ocean City’s coast. The Haliade-X 12-megawatt has been described by GE Renewable Energy as the “world’s largest offshore wind turbine,” and its proposed use off the Ocean City coast would be the first commercial deployment in the world, according to a release from Orsted.
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59 comments:
What a shame. Windmills are a waste as far as renewable energy. Kill thousands of migratory birds and are sn eye sore.
So when they find out that they fall short $10,000 each, than what was promised, as crisfield has learned, and in 15 years when they are in poor condition get ready to sue their butts to make them take them back down
Not to mention the manufacturing process is more damaging to the environment than other sources of energy and the top the unsustainability list!
BIG mistake
Look at what happened to the "green" experiment at Chesapeake College. The windmill failed and it wasn't saving enough money to cover the repair/replacement costs. It was quietly taken down.
Google it.
Wasted resources that will never add up
just for poples information 8 Mega watt is NOTHING. 8MW will run the a certain companies feed plant on zion chrch rd each month for the year. THATS it for 64 wind turbines. lol.
But....we can see Fat Topless woman on OC Beach soon....
who have tattoos and boy hair cuts
Mark my words. When these wind turbine go up, so will your electric bills.
Wake up people. You're being scammed. To make the profit revenue for their stock holders they only needed 32 turbines. They threw out the 64 turbine number so that they could make you think they were cooperating and willing to negotiate with Ocean City by cutting their original number in half. They only wanted 32 to start with. Hogan wake up and stop the scam job on Ocean City.
Get ready to shell out tax dollars and higher electric bills to cover the losses of the electric companies!!! There goes your savings and taking them down will pose a threat to the environment due to newly found cancer causing agents used in there manufacturing processes!!
That is enough power to keep the trains running along about 1.5 miles of the 118 mile Washington Metro.
Never mind the power for light, escalators, elevators, signaling and train control, fare collection, pumping station, communication systems . . . along that same 1.5 miles.
SBJ
Look at the ones in Europe. Total failure
There's 3 outside of Easton in the village of Cordova
All 3 just sit there now not moving
Guess they will be coming down soon too
What a waist
hogan is an idiot! won't be voting for that ahole again!
If you EVER seen these EYESORE before?? You would know how the destroy a once beautiful site. Besides. Didn't it just come out that they don't produce much energy for the cost?
Go nuclear
Going to be a beautiful sight when finished,NOT!
So let me understand this. You guys are mad that expert engineers have designed technology and a free market company has decided to invest in this project?
Going to be some great fishing though. Just saying.
September 25, 2019 at 8:05 PM;
You have no idea what 12 megawatts is. 32 of them is 384 megawatts of energy. That's more more than half of the 600 megawatt output of a typical coal fired powerplant. That's enough energy to serve about 250.000 residential customers.
September 26, 2019 at 7:59 AM:
An "eyesore"? Get real. You'll never see them from land. If you do, it will be a speck on the horizon. A speck on the horizon is by no means an eyesore. And I happen to think they have an elegant beauty compared to smoke belching power plants. The ones lining the hills of West Virginia, Western Maryland, and Pennsylvania are amazing to see.
Kill thousands of migratory birds and are sn eye sore.
September 25, 2019 at 4:46 PM:
I've seen many, many windmills in Western Maryland, and I've never seen one of those "thousands" of dead migratory birds. Scared of the dark much? You state a bold faced lie. Eyesore? Have you ever even seen a coal or oil fired power plant? Now THAT would be an eyesore. I'll take windmills in my backyard before any powerplant anytime. Eastern Shore people can be so stupid sometimes.
September 25, 2019 at 6:22 PM:
You said it yourself. It was an experiment, like everything else they do at colleges. The windmills have a limited lifespan, just like all energy producing equipment. And the Chesapeake windmill was an early model, not really built to last like they've been refined to do now. The research gained from the experiment at Chesapeake Collage was completed, and it was decided not to renew the project. The college's work was done. That little windmill was never intended to supply all the colleges energy needs for any length of time. Like you said, it was an experiment.
September 25, 2019 at 7:24 PM:
I'll mark your words, but you'll never admit it when your prophesy fails to materialize. Energy bills will always go up, no matter what the generation source is. Windmills are no exception. Even without windmills, energy costs go up. Quit your beefing about energy bills and invest in energy stocks. You will never lose money on the stocks, and you will collect a quarterly dividend 4 times a year that equals about a constant rate of a 4% return on your investment, while maintaining, practically risk free, your principal. Best stock I've ever owned.
September 26, 2019 at 6:39 AM:
Wow, are you really that dumb? Hogan cant run again (term limits) and you CAN"T vote for him again. Who's the idiot?
Go nuclear
September 26, 2019 at 8:53 AM;
Yeah I'm with you. Just put it in YOUR backyard.
Going to be some great fishing though. Just saying.
September 26, 2019 at 11:04 AM
You said it! I can't wait to take my boat out there. "Structure" is what fishing is all about.
That surely is what it looks like to me too 10:03
It's not the Eastern Shore people whining. It's the come here's that want to change our way of thinking to their way of life. Enough is enough, don't come here and try to rule
I'm fine with one in my back yard. I've worked on 2 new units under construction and 1 refueling, 7 years total. I have complete confidence in the safety of nuclear power
6:22 exactly then they put up millions in solar panels which will burn out in 10 years.
Offshore wind turbines have a 10 year lifespan if a storm does not take them down first.
Hogan may be in on the scam follow the money.
10:03 you don’t understand how taxpayers get scammed.
I see the pro wind propaganda people are here propping up their taxpayer scam.
and 3:57 with the fear the come here crying.
they notoriously leak oil. your ocean will be polluted
they notoriously kill birds
their claims about generation output are a lie
enjoy your upcoming disaster.
you stupid idiots deserve everything coming to you
you were too lazy to fight this.
anyone supporting this is doing so solely based on the biased rhetoric fed to them from the liars selling this.
put jake day down as one of the koolaid drinkers. he claims it will bring 5000 jobs here. he must be using more of the fake folk festival math.
it's a total scam. otherwise they wouldn't be pushing this upon the taxpayers! private company my @ss! project will fail, owners of the company and mary;and politicians who supported the fleecing of the taxpayer will all walk away rich and the rate payers (that's You) will be stuck paying off this white elephant!
swear most of you folks are f'n idiots! why doesn't the government do something that will really help everything and everyone? like stopping you illiterates from reproducing? that would surly go along way to helping alleviate the problems!
Total scam and ugly too!
At a larger cost to the environment and pockets than a coal fired electric plant. Personally i love the wind turbines because i make $1,000's and have done so for years doing maintenance on them. Fox's watching the hen house people. I only say what i say because it makes no difference they ARE going up and i will make money keeping those pin wheels half way running as always. Let me be clear my work is honest and i have 0% interest in weather they go up or not i just deal with the mess afterwards because someone has to. We have more work than we can cover now so i guess it will create more jobs that can hardly be filled here on the sho.
Without that coal fired power plant the wind turbines would never work they need a tremendous amount of electricity to run . It's not self sufficient electric it comes from the 13,000 volt wire running to the turbine. The beautiful turbines you speak about in western Maryland are not as large as the ones they want to put off Ocean city. The 13,000 volt wire's go to each and every one of those turbines that combined with massive maintenance schedules they cost way more than what they save across the board. I almost forgot to say the ones in western Maryland are not being replaced after there life expectancy is over. Slowly being dismantled and removed as a loss of money project and the new 16" natural gas pipeline replacing them.
Perhaps a quiet structure. I don't share your confidence of these structures making fishing better. In fact, I would expect the low frequency noise to to run fish off, not attract.
You don’t know about Enron, do you??
Everyone likes to point to isolated failures but never cite the successes of wind energy. The technology is improving every day and some open minded communities are very successfully integrating wind energy into their power grids. If you want some interesting reading look up wind energy in Texas. Not only does wind produce almost 20% of Texas’s energy requirements it provides thousands of jobs. Clean energy is the future.
Anonymous said...
What a shame. Windmills are a waste as far as renewable energy. Kill thousands of migratory birds and are sn eye sore.
September 25, 2019 at 4:46 PM
LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!!!
When you Fruitcakes kept saying the same scare tactics about the windmills going offshore in Crisfield I stopped by the windmill in Chesapeake College no less than 100 times to formulate my own opinion. I never saw any birds on the ground nor could I hear the windmill operate.
Before you Fruitcakes continue to regurgigate the Liberal Lies you are spoonfed, you should do your own investigation.
I do not support the windmills off Ocean City but my point is the Libtard lie. These windmills do NOT kill thousands of birds nor are they noisy.
I will, however, say they are a damn eyesore!
Anonymous said...
hogan is an idiot! won't be voting for that ahole again!
September 26, 2019 at 6:39 AM
There's a third term for Maryland Governor?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
September 25, 2019 at 8:05 PM;
You have no idea what 12 megawatts is. 32 of them is 384 megawatts of energy. That's more more than half of the 600 megawatt output of a typical coal fired powerplant. That's enough energy to serve about 250.000 residential customers.
September 26, 2019 at 2:18 PM
WTF is 250.000??? The decimal point means 250
Anonymous said...
September 26, 2019 at 7:59 AM:
An "eyesore"? Get real. You'll never see them from land. If you do, it will be a speck on the horizon. A speck on the horizon is by no means an eyesore. And I happen to think they have an elegant beauty compared to smoke belching power plants. The ones lining the hills of West Virginia, Western Maryland, and Pennsylvania are amazing to see.
September 26, 2019 at 2:24 PM
I've never seen a "smoke belching" powerplant offshore??
BTW, it's steam, not "smoke."
Anonymous said...
Kill thousands of migratory birds and are sn eye sore.
September 25, 2019 at 4:46 PM:
I've seen many, many windmills in Western Maryland, and I've never seen one of those "thousands" of dead migratory birds. Scared of the dark much? You state a bold faced lie. Eyesore? Have you ever even seen a coal or oil fired power plant? Now THAT would be an eyesore. I'll take windmills in my backyard before any powerplant anytime. Eastern Shore people can be so stupid sometimes.
September 26, 2019 at 2:29 PM
Thank you. I said the same thing about this liberal lie before I read your comment. I've stopped at the windmill that used to be at Chesapeake College to see how many dead birds were there. Surely I would find at least one. I've stopped there well over 100 times and never saw one dead bird of any kind. People will repeat the same lies over and over again. Sheeple and Lemmings.
Anonymous said...
September 25, 2019 at 6:22 PM:
You said it yourself. It was an experiment, like everything else they do at colleges. The windmills have a limited lifespan, just like all energy producing equipment. And the Chesapeake windmill was an early model, not really built to last like they've been refined to do now. The research gained from the experiment at Chesapeake Collage was completed, and it was decided not to renew the project. The college's work was done. That little windmill was never intended to supply all the colleges energy needs for any length of time. Like you said, it was an experiment.
September 26, 2019 at 2:35 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone is in defense mode again.
John Cannon was seduced by that dumb a$$ Mike Dunn into supporting this windmill project in Ocean City.
I thought John Cannon was a Republican? He is always supporting Jake Day, Mike Dunn and Bill Chambers and fighting Bob Culver. What team is he really on?
I can hear the windmill in Crisfield from 1/2mile away and that’s just a little one. Worked next to it for awhile almost went insane. Not hearsay, experience
If climate change was real, we would be pushing nuclear power. France is 70% nuclear.
Oh My Goodness ! This Has Got Everybody Fired Up ! EVERYBODY DO SOME FACT FINDING REAL RESEARCH ! NOT THIS GOGGLE MESS !
WTF is 250.000??? The decimal point means 250
September 29, 2019 at 11:08 AM:
Too hard for your little brain to figure out a comma, period typo? Figures....
September 29, 2019 at 8:38 AM;
Total, utter BS.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone is in defense mode again.
September 29, 2019 at 11:14 AM:
Yeah, that's a real intelligent comeback (not!). But I suppose that's the best you can do. Pity.
September 29, 2019 at 3:49 PM:
Tell us EXACTLY what it sounds like, and maybe, just maybe, someone will believe you. I had to get much closer than 1/2 mile away to the ones in Western Maryland to hear the "noise." Standing nearly under the windmills, as close as I could get to them (walked up the hillsides to get there) and all I could hear was the sound like a passenger jet plane would make high up in the sky. A barely discernible hum, if you will. I just think you are a chicken little, crying the sky is falling....
September 29, 2019 at 3:49 PM:
ALMOST went insane? I think you are already there if you thought you heard it 1/2 mile away.
I've never seen a "smoke belching" powerplant offshore??
BTW, it's steam, not "smoke."
September 29, 2019 at 11:10 AM:
It's hard to rebut stupid, but I'll try. What makes your reading comprehension so bad that you think someone was suggesting "smoke belching powerplants offshore? The comparison was windmills (wherever they are) to powerplants (wherever they are). DUH, are you that dense? And coal and oil fired plants produce smoke, whether you see it or not. It is a product of combustion. But yes, the oil and coal furnaces do produce steam to turn the turbines.
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