Largest Offshore Wind Farm Proposed for RI (USA)

A renewable energy company has proposed what it says would be the largest offshore wind farm in the United States: a 200-turbine, 1,000-megawatt project off the coast of Rhode Island that would provide power to multiple states along the East Coast.

Deepwater Wind LCC, which recently moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Providence, says the turbines would be far enough offshore as to be barely visible from land and would be located in the ocean waters of Rhode Island Sound.

The company has submitted an application for the project, estimated to cost between $4 billion to $5 billion, to the U.S. Department of the Interior to lease the site where it plans to build the wind farm. It hopes to begin construction in 2014 and have the first turbines in operation by the end of 2015.

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