Climate Changed
What Was Once Hailed as First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Is No More
- Cape Wind project halts development efforts, cancels lease
- Faced strong local opposition, lost power contracts in 2015
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Cape Wind, the offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts that drew the ire of the Kennedy and Koch families, is officially dead.
Energy Management Inc. has ceased efforts to build what was once expected to become the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., according to an emailed statement from Chief Executive Officer Jim Gordon. The project’s Boston-based developer has already notified the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it has terminatsed the offshore wind development lease it received in 2010.