After a nine-year federal review process the U.S. Department of Interior has approved the first-ever, utility-scale offshore wind energy project for New York State, the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. New York state is one the leaders in USA windpower,in 2009 existing projects contributed 1,274 megawatts of capacity to the grid.
The new wind development is planned to be located roughly 13 nautical miles off the Rockaway Peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. Source : Gotham Gazette
