Virginia Joins Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium

States are joining together to pursue offshore wind energy on the east coast. Virginia is the latest to join the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.

Wind is a tremendous power resource for a number of reasons. It is clean. It doesn’t pollute. The energy source is free and renews continually. That doesn’t mean there aren’t problems with it. It can take up a lot of land. The wind turbines can be considered a blight. The wind doesn’t always blow. It’s a bit of a mixed bag for many people.

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The answer to these problems in many cases is to go offshore. The states and communities along the east coast have often fought this idea, but have recently changed their views. The key was the final approval of the Cape Code Wind Farm after a decade plus of fighting and litigation. Now, a burgeoning collection of states is looking to the waters off their coastline as a revenue and energy producer.

The Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium is comprised of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina. The Consortium is banding together to share the cost and expense of researching wind farm project possibilities off their coastlines. There appears to be some momentum to also bid projects as a group to create pricing leverage that will cut costs.

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Virginia has now joined the Consortium. The state was at the forefront of offshore oil drilling under the controversial plan put forth by President Obama. Then a small problem occurred. You might have heard something about a certain oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico? Some company called BP might have a slight problem? Well, it has made drilling off the coast political dynamite for the President, which means Virginia has to look at other options. Wind power is the primary option.

So, what can we take from this? Are wind farms going to pop up on the coast of Virginia and much of the east coast? Well, yes. The question is the size and extent of those farms. They could be tiny or they could be huge. Only time will tell.

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