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NYPA's Kessel eyes wind farm, underwater cable
Newly named New York Power Authority chief executive Richard Kessel is drawing up a 10-year plan that includes a wind farm "of significant size" off the Atlantic coast and a new sub-Atlantic power cable, he said Thursday. ...Kessel said he has already had a phone conversation with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the wind farm, which he envisions producing between 200 and 500 megawatts of power - potentially 150 turbines. A Bloomberg spokesman said the mayor and Kessel will meet on the topic in coming weeks.
November 5, 2008
by Mark Harrington
in Newsday
Newly named New York Power Authority chief executive Richard Kessel is drawing up a 10-year plan that includes a wind farm "of significant size" off the Atlantic coast and a new sub-Atlantic power cable, he said Thursday.
The wind farm would be in addition to another under discussion off the coast of the Rockaways by Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority, which Kessel ran for more than a decade. "I think we can look farther out than that" project, he said about the project's distance from shore. A previous wind farm backed by Kessel while at LIPA was... [continue via Web link]
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