US's First Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm Planned for Lake Erie

Posted by Big Gav in offshore wind power

Ecogeek has a post on an offshore wind farm planned for the US great lakes - Nation's First Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm Planned for Lake Erie.

It's an exciting time in wind energy these days. The U.S. will be getting its first offshore wind farm thanks to Cape Wind's long-awaited approval, and now plans for the first freshwater offshore wind farm in the U.S. have been announced as well. The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp has signed a deal with GE to purchase five offshore wind turbines destined for the Ohio waters of the lake.

The 4-MW turbines will be placed three to five miles offshore though their exact planned location isn't known. This is expected to be the first order of many from the development corp that has made a goal of having 1 GW of freshwater-based wind energy online by 2020.

1 comments

Prateek Parag says 10:09 PM

Its quite nice to see that Government is encouraging renewable sources of energy. Just hoping some more plans like these will soon come into existence. The best part about this project is that it is associated with both wind and water.