According to E-The Environmental Magazine, a new plan to create a transition backbone off the Atlantic coast harnessing offshore wind should create capacity for some two million homes from Virginia all the way to New York City. The Atlantic Wind Connection hopes to get the plan in operation by 2016.
Obama administration launched the “Smart from the Start” initiative in November 2010 to identify wind priority areas and speed up permitting, with the goal of allowing projects to be approved in late 2011 and 2012. Other wind farms are being planned in Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and elsewhere along the east coast.
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