Cape Wind
The Cape Wind Project is an approved 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. The wind farm may become the first offshore wind energy project in United States coastal waters.
Great controversy has surrounded the project. The project has been fought by the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, formed in 2001 to oppose the proposal because it will construct 400-foot (120 m) tall wind turbines in the middle of environmentally sensitive Nantucket Sound.
The project is expected to cost $2.5 billion.
Read more about Cape Wind: Plans, Approval Process, Power Purchase Agreements, Controversy, Other Cape Cod Wind Projects
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