OCEAN CITY — One of the two companies planning an offshore wind farm project already in the planning pipeline on Wednesday applied for a second project roughly six times larger.
In 2017, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) approved two wind energy projects off the coast of Ocean City, including Ørsted’s Skipjack project. Technically, the PSC awarded Offshore Renewable Energy Credits, or ORECs, to the two successful bidders, including the Skipjack project. The Skipjack project is now making its way through the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approval process.
On Wednesday, Ørsted announced it has submitted a bid to the PSC to develop Skipjack 2, a proposed project off the coast of Ocean City. The proposed Skipjack Wind 2 project would include up to 760 megawatts and would be sited about 20 miles off the coast of the resort. It would be located in the same approved Wind Energy Area (WEA) as the Skipjack 1 project.
BOEM designated a WEA off the coast of the resort of about 80,000 acres, and the Skipjack 1 project is situated in the northern section of Maryland’s WEA. By comparison, Skipjack 1 is slated for about 120 megawatts. At a proposed 760 megawatts, Skipjack Wind 2 would be over six times the size of Skipjack 1.
The number of turbines for Skipjack 2 will be dependent on an award from the PSC and the size of the award, according to Ørsted officials, who also said Skipjack 2, if approved, would be sited further east than Skipjack 1, which is proposed about 19.5 miles off the coast, by comparison.
Absolute lunacy!
And you and I will be paying for it.
Wind power technologies are pathetically inefficient and ridiculously expensive, not to mention the fact of creating waste that is unrecyclable.
Funding waste.
..and the nuts around us are worrying about 5g towers blocking their view? How many of Hunter’s paintings did they have to purchase to get Joe Biden to agree with this?