OCEAN CITY — The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) evidentiary hearing on the proposed change in the size of the turbines for one offshore wind farm began in earnest on Thursday with both sides firing salvos in their opening remarks.
Last year, Ørsted, the developer of the Skipjack project announced it was committed to using the GE-Haliade 12-megwatt turbines, described as the “world’s largest offshore wind turbine,” for its Skipjack project off the north end of Ocean City. The 12-megawatt turbines are significantly larger than turbines originally envisioned for the project off the resort coast.
Because of the drastic change in the proposed turbine size, the PSC in January held a five-hour-plus public hearing in Ocean City attended by hundreds to determine if a further evidentiary hearing was warranted. In February, the PSC granted the town of Ocean City’s request for an evidentiary hearing and it got underway on Thursday morning. The hearing is expected to continue for two days, and the PSC will, at some point, make a determination on the turbine size change.
In his opening statement on Thursday, Ørsted attorney Joseph Curran III said the 12-megawatt turbines now being proposed for the Skipjack project represented the “best available technology,” a concession placed on the PSC’s original approval for the project in 2017.
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7 comments:
With oil prices just at historic lows, it seems ridiculous to spend gazillions and destroy the view and kill birds for more energy...
Are these people just plain stupid???
Just look around the world at how wind power is failing and sticking the energy consumers with the tab.
Get over the wind panacea, IT DOESN'T WORK!
Peace....
cant we just do away with vehicles that kill the clean air we breath ?
Join us @ Peace Alliance of the Lower Shore.
We are a progressive cause, and we have members like Jake Day, John Wright, Josh Hastings, and many other liberals....
We sit around in 1960s jackets and bang on the drums ....we love to legalize Marijuana too....
No wind turbines! Inefficient and ugly.
Stick a fork in the turbine debate. The nation just spent $3 TRILLION dollars with a snap of a finger. This discussion and initiative is DOA Rickie. There is no money, there will be no more money for happy ideas either. Rick....your town didn't produce this year, kick the can down the road like the Route 50 bridge replacement. That is needed more before wind turbines to no where.
Wake the eff up!
If they do go through with this and butcher the Delaware seashore with a sub-station I will be sick. I will never have any respect with so-called environmentalists ever again. New tech will make wind power obsolete in ten years. It just makes no sense. Follow the money trail...
If you've ever studied property situated near the ocean, you know that almost everything seems to succumb to the destructive salt air. Can you imagine the cost of keeping those monstrous turbines operational? Frankly, time has proved wind turbines to be a bad idea.
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