Green Renter - Offshore Wind Power and New York City: Technology, Proposals and Potential, with KC Sahl, Project Director, Bluewater Wind

January 19, 2009
7:00 pmto8:30 pm

 

 

The potential of wind turbine technology to provide for our growing electricity needs on a utility scale increases every year as technology improves and its costs decline versus rising fossil fuel prices. However, wind power is limited by two key factors: time and location. Put simply, the wind doesn’t always blow and the areas with the highest wind resource are often located far away from population centers or in areas where development is controversial.

Developing turbines miles off shore along coastal shelves, where wind is more constant, speeds are higher and the imposing 30-story scale of today’s turbines are minimized to the size of thimble from land, may help mitigate both of these obstacles going forward. In spite of these advantages, recent large scale project proposals to develop offshore wind in the the Northeast have either succumbed to local opposition or escalating project costs. However, new proposals, including a few in the New York City harbor area, are again on the table, and important allies - including Mayor Bloomberg - have come to advocate for its development in the region.

KC Sahl, the New York Project Director for Bluewater Wind, one of the nation’s leading developers of offshore wind projects, will speak about offshore wind turbine technology and potential in the local context. 


Posted on Sunday, January 4th, 2009 at 8:24 pm | Tagged in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Solar One Events, Technology, Water | posted by Neidl

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