OCEAN CITY — With a public hearing looming next week in Ocean City on the size and scale of the proposed offshore wind turbines, resort officials are encouraging attendance from the public.
The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) next Saturday at noon will host a public hearing on the proposed changes in size of the offshore wind turbines for two projects approved off the coast of the resort. The PSC is holding the public hearing in response to changes in the size of the wind turbines due to technological advances since the two projects were approved in 2017. The PSC has cautioned the scope of next week’s public hearing, set for the convention center at noon on Saturday, January 18, will be limited to the turbine height issue and will not be open to a discussion of the validity of the two projects in general.
The public hearing as been long-awaited by the town of Ocean City, which, from the beginning, has not opposed the renewable, clean energy projects in general, but rather the distance of the turbines from the resort coast and the potential impacts on Ocean City’s viewshed and tourism, property values and the local economy. To be fair, both wind farm project developers have made presentations to the Mayor and Council in public meetings at City Hall during the process and there have been public hearings in other areas around the state, but next Saturday’s hearing, couched by the resort as the “Save Our Sunrise” hearing, is the first of its kind right in the resort’s backyard.
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25 comments:
You all are morons... You can't even begin to understand how bad this is for Ocean life let alone what turbines can do to humans health... Of yours you wouldn't know, the media and the govt won't tell you the bad health issues with it let alone the noise too... You are better off doing solar power or having that bank of batteries Tesla made and runs a whole god damn city with it... Even Australia has a building full of them to run the their cities...
Big beautiful turbines...
Let the windmill phobia begin....
They've already been proven not to be an effective electricity producer due to the maintenance costs
945 please enlighten us then. Last I checked, turbines provide great reef habitat. And modern regs and ocean mapping capabilties prevent or limite destruction of bottom habitat.
945 you do know there are actual scientists who study this for a living, and their findings run counter to the crud you just spewed.
It's not that I am anti-wind turbines.... I just don't trust the parties involved (developers, elected leaders, regulators) to get this right. The project of placing wind turbines off the coast of Maryland --- as it is currently moving forward --- has about a 10% chance of being executed with proper regard to residents, environment and rate-payers.
Just look around the world where governments have gone all in with wind and solar.
Wind and solar is a dismal failure wherever it is [placed and ALWAYS results in much higher energy costs to the consumers.
Im not 945 but I encourage you to check again.
Are some of these the same as ones pushing the climate doomsday numskullery? Unapologetically, I struggle to accept something as hard truth simply because someone suggests some one or others have studied, particularly when there is money to be made. professional whores come in a variety of wrappers (write that down)
Well my friend, instead of accepting what Ive typed, why dont you go on google scholar and study up on the peer-reviewed publications that address this topic. There you will find where the experts lay out the issue they are studying, their hypothesis, the specific experimental design they used to test that hyposthesis, the results and their interpretation of their results. Following that, you can then look to dispute their findings with additional facts/data. Dont have time for that? Then sit back and drink a cold glas of Shut Up and let the adults handle this one.
-1115
Mmmm, who doesn't enjoy a cold glass of shut up?! Part of what humors me with your response is I work with the industry/commodity. We, internally, must clearly be mistaken haha. I'll enjoy my drink, you try to enjoy the weekend.
Environmentalists are silent must have gotten a big payout.
Build em on the Beach....
that would give the homeless a place to hang out
January 10, 2020 at 9:45 AM:
STFU. You've never heard a wind turbine in your life.
January 10, 2020 at 12:03 PM:
Just more unfounded blather....
So 9:45, tell has exactly what wind turbines can do to human health. Please be truthful
Yes !!!
Yes, build them on the beach. Then these richy rich people will actually have something to bitch about
I can think of better things to do on a Saturday!
John Cannon, Mike Dunn and Bill Chambers forced this on the Wicomico County to endorse and support. How does this benefit Wicomico County? They should have kept their nose out of Ocean City's business!
There are scores of reasons to oppose this development. Here are a few... skews military, skews weather radar, kills marine life, reduces fishing grounds, most expensive form of energy, creates navigation hazards, reduces property values, kills birds, kills bats, visual blight daytime, visual blight night time via red blinking lights, aviation hazard, maintenance costs, hurricane damage, foreign developer, foreign products, wealth transfer to foreign companies, foreign company controls massive water and air space, improper studies, and this is Maryland's only oceanfront that is limited to one Eastern Shore County that includes Ocean City, our biggest economic driver.
GO NUCLEAR !!!
Bring them on!
The more the better!
Whats bad for Ocean City and the neighboring resorts is great for the shore!!!
I see this as a plus!
They won't get much revenue from their increased parking fees and the dead birds washing ashore should be a plus to keep those ghetto trash tourist away!!!
The higher the better!
The more the better for the electrical grid!!!!
Wind and solar are by definition unreliable. When the wind stops or a cloud moves over, the energy generation stops or is dramatically reduced, but the power demand is very predictable and relatively steady, so the sudden reduction of unreliable energy must be made up by conventional generation that must always be on standby which is a very inefficient way to run a power plant.
Wind and solar can never be more than 20% of the generation base load as any more leads to grid instability.
The further offshore the wind turbines are place also leads to transmission losses as the load in onshore.
The fact that you are transmitting high voltage A/C through saltwater also has its own problems.
All in all, this is not a very good idea but it give politicians greenie virtue points at the expense of utility customers.
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