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Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast. Renewable Energy for the East Coast. Offshore Wind. by Ivy Main Renewable Energy Chair Virginia Chapter Sierra Club October 2010. Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast.
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Offshore Wind: • Renewable Energy • for the East Coast Renewable Energy for the East Coast Offshore Wind by Ivy Main Renewable Energy Chair Virginia Chapter Sierra Club October 2010
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast Kentish Flats wind farm. Photo Phil Hollman
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast Long Island Power Authority 2003
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast VCERC 2008
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast VCERC 2008
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast VCERC 2008
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast VCERC 2009
Offshore Wind: Renewable Energy for the East Coast Univ. of Delaware, www.ceoe.udel.edu/windpower
So what does it take to get there? • Need some combination of: • Competitive production costs • Incentives • RPS • Limits on carbon • Price on carbon, pollution, or other externalities
What is the Sierra Club doing? • We advocate: • a real RPS • including externalities in the IRP process • continuing funding for VCERC • incentives for offshore wind investment and turbine manufacturing • removing the $45 million of coal subsidies