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The North Carolina Task Force for Offshore Wind Economic Resource Strategies, or NC Towers for short, gave its final report to outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly.
The state has significant offshore wind resources. In 2015, small scale wind turbine projects were found throughout the state. In 2016, North Carolina's first large scale wind project, and the first in the southeastern U.S., was completed near Elizabeth City. [2] [3] In 2019, North Carolina had an installed wind capacity of 208 MW. [4]
Further complicating matters, a non-regulated subsidiary of Duke called Cinergy Corp. holds the offshore wind lease to a 55,154-acre area off Brunswick County that the company has said could power ...
Kitty Hawk North Wind: Offshore North Carolina OCS-A 0508 [49] 24 nmi east of Corolla (NC) 122,405 acres (49,536 ha) NC: 800: Up to 69: Avangrid Renewables [50] [51] [52] Leading Light Wind Offshore New Jersey OCS-A 0542 30 nmi east of NJ NJ: 2,400 2031 Invenergy. energyRE NJBPU [39] MarWin: Offshore Maryland OCS-A 0490 [53] 26 nmi east of ...
Duke Energy’s plans. Offshore wind could be part of Duke Energy’s power generation mix sooner than the utility had been expecting, company officials indicated in a resource plan update filed ...
In 2014, the Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced 3 new wind energy areas off the coast of North Carolina in accordance with the "Smart from the Start" approach, which totaled to around 307,590 acres of ocean. These three are the Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Areas (122,405 acres), the Wilmington West Wind Energy Areas (51,595 acres), and ...
There are currently three areas leased for offshore wind farms along the N.C. coast, including two about 20 miles south of Brunswick County.
The Desert Wind Farm, also known as Amazon Wind Farm US East, spans Perquimans and Pasquotank County on the Atlantic coastal plain in northeast North Carolina. With a total generating capacity of 208 megawatts (MW), it became the first large wind farm in the southeast United States when it came online at the end of 2016.