Today, the Cape Wind project has limited viability.
On Tuesday, Denmark’s DONG Energy A/S, a global offshore wind developer, announced that it is looking to build in an area 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. He believes that Cape Wind’s 130 industrial turbines would not only create what he calls “visual pollution” but also increase the cost of electricity for everyone." Koch, a billionaire industrialist who made his fortune in fossil fuels and whose better-known brothers underwrite conservative political causes, has been fighting the wind farm, called Cape Wind, for more than a decade, donating about $5 million and leading an adversarial group against it. In contrast to Deepwater's success, Robert Whitcomb, author of the book “Cape Wind” outlined some of the failures of the proposed Cape Wind project that has faced massive political and financial objection from a range of powerful forces over nearly two decades including one of the Koch brothers (William), Walter Cronkite and Senator Ted Kennedy.Īs the New York Times reported in 2013, "Mr. In describing the complexity of the project Grybowski said the towers are, “twice the height of the Statue of Liberty - 600 feet tall.” In March, it closed financing on more than $290 million in project financing provided by Mandated Lead Arrangers Societe Generale of Paris, France, and KeyBank National Association of Cleveland, Ohio.
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