CAPE WIND

Cape Wind's developer is Energy Management Inc. (EMI) a New England based energy company with 35 years of experience in energy conservation and energy development. ESS Group, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been the environmental science specialist for the project. Cape Wind is also being assisted by Woods Hole Group, K2 Management, SgurrEnergy, AWS Truepower, and PMSS. Barclays is Cape Wind’s Financial Advisor. In 1975, Energy Management, Inc. (EMI) began developing energy conservatio... n and pollution control projects for institutional and industrial facilities. In 1985, the company transitioned to developing independent power projects. The company has successfully developed six natural gas fired electric generation projects. Over the past thirty-five years EMI earned a reputation of completing environmentally superior facilities with ultra-high plant availability. Since 2001, EMI has been focused primarily on developing renewable energy projects including offshore wind, biomass, and solar. Cape Wind will produce 75% of the electricity used on Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in average conditions, with zero pollutant emissions, zero waste discharge, and zero water consumption. Cape Wind will help launch the American offshore wind industry and produce significant economic, environmental, and energy benefits for Massachusetts, the region, and the nation. Cape Wind will consist of 130 Siemens 3.6-megawatt offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 468 megawatts. The project will be located in Federal waters off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, the most technically optimal offshore wind power site in the United States. Cape Wind’s monopile foundations are individually designed and will be driven deep into the seabed to support the wind turbines. Transition pieces will be fitted onto the monopiles. The wind turbine towers will be bolted onto the transition pieces. Intra array submarine cables will be jet plowed six feet into the seabed and will feed into an Electric Service Platform (ESP) near the center of the wind farm array. From the ESP, export submarine cables will be submerged and make landfall in West Yarmouth, where buried cables will continue to the interconnect point, the Barnstable Substation. Cape Wind’s Operations Headquarters will be based along Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod. Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound has all of the characteristics to be the optimal location for America’s first offshore wind farm. This location also makes good sense thinking about both the past and the future of the Cape and Islands. Not only do the Cape and Islands have a rich history of harnessing wind power, but they now stand to benefit by being a leader in clean energy production to mitigate the impacts of climate change, to which the Cape and Islands are particularly vulnerable.More