LIPA to build a wind park off Jones Beach

    The Long Island Power Authority is currently in the planning and promoting stages of building one of the first wind energy parks in the United States. The wind park will be built off the coast of JonesBeach. Mineral Management Service still has to review the LIPA plan and assess it thoroughly, but LIPA chairman Richard Kessel has already begun to discuss the project with stakeholders in and around Long Island.

  MMS has to evaluate whether LIPA can build their wind park off the coast of Jones Beach and whether other states will have to be consulted throughout construction.  Kessel will release information about the cost of construction at a later date.

Posted by Ocean Renewable on May 30th, 2006 filed in NEWS