Internal Department popular target for renewable energy on public lands

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) announced on October 10 that the Department of the President objective achieved authorizing 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy on public land. DOI met the milestone with his assertion that the site chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind energy project in Southeastern Wyoming suitable for wind energy development. The project is a proposed complex that could generate up to 3,000 megawatts of power. Developers expect the proposal and create an estimated 1,000 construction, operation and maintenance jobs, where Summit construction, employs 114 permanent workers and makes enough energy to generate almost 1 million apartments.

The Commission approved the Bureau of land management, to continue for the Sierra Madre and chokecherry wind farms and infrastructure with site-specific environmental analysis. Additional environmental reviews will be needed for the turbine layouts. The proposed project would comprises two sites to exist to 1,000 wind turbines on approximately 219.707 hectares land about 10 miles south of Rawlins. It is developed in phases and are operated by power company of Wyoming LLC. If constructed, the wind, which have complex should a footprint of less than 2,000 hectares.

Since 2009 DOI has solar authorized 33 renewable energy projects, including 18 utility-scale facilities, seven wind parks and eight geothermal plants with associated transmission corridors and infrastructure projects to make a connection enabling it with established power grids. If built, represents more than 10,000 megawatts this projects electricity or enough electricity, makes available more than 3.5 million homes. You support would also an estimated 13,000 construction and operation according to project developer jobs. See press release DOI.

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Internal Department review proposal to the first US floating wind turbine

A Statoil Hywind turbine in place offshore. Credit card: Trude Refsahl, Statoil

The US Department of Interior (DOI) announced on 9 August that it will begin to build a proposal, what would be the nation's first floating wind farm check. DOI Bureau of ocean energy management (BOEM) is project forward with an assessment of the Statoil North America Hywind Maine. The planned wind farm is located about 500 meters deep approximately 12 nautical miles off the coast in the water, would a 12-megawatt capacity of four generators for wind turbines. The field the Statoil North America for a commercial wind lease approximately 22 square kilometres includes requested it expected the final Park, has, although the company States to closer to 4 km after determining its impact and wind environmental resources.

BOEM seeks public comments on environmental issues related to the proposed rental, construction and operation activities in the field of offshore by an announcement of the intention of an environmental impact statement prepare. Release a request for interest in the Federal Register is to request a maximum of 60 days of public comments posts of competitive interest rates and additional information about potential environmental impacts and other uses of the proposed lease area open. Accordingly, BOEM intends to prepare a statement that takes into account reasonably foreseeable consequences for the environment with the project Hywind Maine related. See press release of DOI, the Statoil proposal, the BOEM of public comment Web page and the Statoil-Hywind-demo Web site.

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Defence, internal departments pursue renewable energy on federal lands

The Ministry of defence is the deployment of renewable energy systems, such as this 14-megawatt solar power system at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada, ramps, providing about one-quarter of the base's power requirements.
Credit card: Nellis AFB

On 6 August, announced the Interior Department are Defense Minister Leon Panetta and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar of understanding (MOU) signed a memorandum, the corresponding series promotes renewable energy projects on public land, which purposes are reserved for the defense and on other onshore and offshore areas in the vicinity of military installations. The MOU provides the renewable energy partnership plan, which aimed at ensuring that use solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass energy resources found on or in the vicinity of military installations in the country.

Department of Defense (DoD) installations include approximately 28 million acres in the United States, including 16 million hectares, that previously managed by the Interior Bureau of land management (BLM), were withdrawn for military purposes. About 13 million hectares free time withdrawn lie to the West and resources are high in the wind, solar and geothermal energy. Offshore wind power is also a plentiful renewable energy resource available on many DoD installations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts along the Gulf of Mexico and in Hawaii. Offshore Atlantic winds alone, an estimated 1,000 gigawatts could produce energy.

Can renewable energy important functions for weeks or months, if fails the commercial network maintain a military base. To keep the military operation in the absence of a grid, each of the military services has committed to provide one gigawatt renewable energy at or near its installations to the year 2025. In pursuit of these objectives is the agreement a framework for an offshore wind farm partnership and Forum; offers onshore renewable energy projects for DoD installations to identify a blueprint for the Interior and the Ministry of defence of the United States; created a working group on geothermal; and passes to develop the Ministry of defence and the BLM on a pilot procedure to authorize solar energy projects on several military installations in Arizona and California. See the press release of the Department of Interior and MOU.

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Internal Department takes key step in letting of offshore wind energy

Offshore wind turbines like these might be closer to the reality of the Atlantic coast.
Credit card: Siemens

The Department of the Interior (DOI) on 2 February is an important milestone for offshore wind energy along the Atlantic coast. DOE and its Bureau of ocean energy management (BOEM) announced that the Department initiative has passed an important environmental review. This approval process for wind will move forward leasing energy sales from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia allow.

BOEM of national environmental policy act review found, there would be no significant environmental or socio-economic impact from wind energy leases in designated areas of the mid-Atlantic coast. The Bureau to solicit published tenders information and nominations for Maryland and Virginia leasing nominations from industry and public comments on site conditions, resources and several uses of wind energy areas to apply for. The Bureau also announced the conclusion of a first of-its-kind form of leasing, which optimize the issuance of offshore renewable energy leasing. Financial and others, as well as a location-specific measures on each lease be added before it is executed. The form of leasing is now available and will be effective 15 days after publication in the Federal Register. Find the DOI press release and lease information in the Federal Register.

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