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Plans for Chesapeake Bay wind turbine suspended
A towering offshore wind turbine off the Eastern Shore seemed likely as recently as late March, when the state gave its blessing for a prototype energy spire in the Chesapeake Bay.
Barely one month later, those plans have been blown away.
May 8, 2012
by Julian Walker
in The Virginian-Pilot
RICHMOND -- A towering offshore wind turbine off the Eastern Shore seemed likely as recently as late March, when the state gave its blessing for a prototype energy spire in the Chesapeake Bay.
Barely one month later, those plans have been blown away.
Gamesa Energy USA and its partner on the project, Huntington Ingalls' Newport News Shipbuilding, announced Monday the suspension of work to erect a 479-foot-tall turbine near Cape Charles. They cited concerns over federal energy policy and the possible expiration of a renewable energy tax credit among their reasons for halting the effort.
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