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Virginia next in line for wind farms?
Virginia officials asked the department to consider allowing turbines off its coast after receiving two unsolicited proposals last year. One of the interested parties is French company AREVA, which builds wind turbines in Germany and plans to build nuclear reactor parts in Virginia.
November 11, 2010
by Cory Nealon
in Daily Press
Matsen expects a decision from Interior Department early next year
The federal government is seeking bids from energy companies to develop wind farms off the coasts of Delaware and Maryland.
Virginia should be next, according to Maureen Matsen, the state's deputy secretary of natural resources.
"I am expectant and hopeful that Virginia will be the third," she said Tuesday, a day after the Interior Department opened 277 nautical square miles off Maryland's coast to wind power developers.
Virginia officials asked the department to consider allowing turbines off its coast after receiving two unsolicited proposals last year. One of the interested... [continue via Web link]
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