Article: United States: New York offshore lakes wind project seeks ideas.

Byline: Mamta03

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said on Thursday the call to develop offshore wind turbines in the Great Lakes by the New York Power Authority may help open up offshore wind development in the United States.

The United States in 2008 surpassed Germany as the leading producer of wind power, but there are no U.S. installed offshore turbines. All Of the 1,471 megawatts of global offshore wind capacity installed by the end of 2008 was in Europe.

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) call planning help developing wind energy in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie may not lead to the first offshore turbines in the United States, but ...

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