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The Cape Wind Project is an approved〔Krasny, Ros. (Cape Wind, first U.S. offshore wind farm, approved ) ''Reuters'', 28 April 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2010〕〔Jackson, Derrick Z. (The winds of change ) ''The Boston Globe'', 1 May 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2010〕 offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. The project is proposed by a private developer, Cape Wind Associates, the brainchild of Jim Gordon of Energy Management Inc.〔 ((CNN) "The wind man who beat Cape Cod's elite" ), CNN website, April 29, 2010. 〕 The wind farm, an offshore wind energy project in United States coastal waters, is projected to generate 1,500 gigawatt hours of electricity per year derived from wind power. With National Grid and Northeast Utilities terminating their power purchase agreements in January 2015, making it difficult to obtain financing, the future of the Cape Wind project is in doubt.〔 The project is expected to cost $2.6 billion. Cape Wind had arranged to borrow $2 billion through The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU). Siemens has agreed to supply the turbines for the project.〔 〕 Additionally, some construction began in 2013, thus qualifying the project for the federal production tax credit, which expired at the end of the year.〔 〕 == Plans == The proposed project covers , and would be from Mashpee, on the south coast of Cape Cod, and from the island town of Nantucket. Cape Wind's developer is Energy Management Inc. (EMI) a New England-based energy company with 35 years of experience in energy conservation and energy development. ESS Group, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been the environmental science specialist for the project. Cape Wind is also being assisted by Woods Hole Group, K2 Management, SgurrEnergy, AWS Truepower, and PMSS. Barclays is Cape Wind’s Financial Advisor. The project envisions 130 horizontal-axis wind turbines, each having a hub height of . The blade diameter is , with the lowest blade tip height at and the top blade tip height at .〔(Cape Wind :: America's First Offshore Wind Farm on Nantucket Sound )〕 The turbines would be sited between 4–11 miles offshore depending on the shoreline. At peak generation, the turbines will generate 454 megawatts (MW).〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cape Wind Basics ) 〕 The project is expected to produce an average of 170 MW of electricity, about 75% of the average electricity demand for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket island combined.〔 〕 It could offset close to a million tons of carbon dioxide every year and should produce enough electricity to offset the consumption of of oil annually.〔(Cape Wind website ). Retrieved on 2009-05-12.〕 Currently 45% of the Cape region's electricity comes from the nearby Canal Generating Plant in Sandwich, which burns bunker oil and natural gas.〔 〕〔 〕 The Cape Wind proposal is distinct in that it would directly offset petroleum combustion, unlike most of the United States where electrical power generation from oil is rare and power from coal, natural gas and nuclear is more common. Additionally, this project would decrease the amount of oil shipped to the Canal Generating Plant; fuel for this plant has been part of two major oil spills. The first was on December 15, 1976, when the tanker ''Argo Merchant'' ran aground southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts spilling of oil.〔 〕 The second occurred in April 2003, when a Bouchard Company barge carrying oil for the Mirant Canal Generating Plant ran aground spilling of oil, which killed 450 birds and shut down 100,000 acres (400 km²) of shell fishing beds.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Wind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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