Cape Wind wins courtroom battle

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Cape Wind wins courtroom battle
Facility may be generating energy within a year

[size=6]Updated: Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011, 5:09 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011, 5:09 PM EST[/size]

BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Cape Wind president Jim Gordon, praising a Supreme Judicial Court ruling that upheld a key component of the project, said Wednesday he's hopeful that the long-delayed offshore wind facility will be generating energy within a year.

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The project "is taking far too long," Gordon continued, noting Europe and Asia are "installing thousands of wind turbines off their coastlines as a way of meeting their environmental and economic challenges."

Gordon convened the call shortly after the Supreme Judicial Court rejected an effort, led in part by Cape Wind opponents, to reopen a decision by state regulators to permit National Grid to purchase half of Cape Wind's power. Cape Wind officials are still seeking a buyer for the remainder of the project's power.

Cape Wind backers say the 130-turbine project, slated to be built in Nantucket Sound, could support up to 1,000 jobs and generate 420 megawatts of electricity, enough to power three-quarters of Cape Cod."

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/politics/cape-wind-wins-courtroom-battle

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