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Old 05-16-2010, 09:13 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Texas to Cape Wind - Offshore Wind Turbines Energy - Popularmechanics.com
The first offshore production wind turbine in the U.S. will likely be erected this summer off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and operational by fall, says Herman Schellstede, the chief technology officer of Coastal Point Energy LLC. Formerly called Wind Energy Systems Technology (W.E.S.T. LLC), the company holds leases to five tracts of submerged land in the Gulf of Mexico, totaling 84,000 acres. A second company, Baryonyx, holds leases to two more tracts.
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Tower of Heaven
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Texas to Cape Wind - Offshore Wind Turbines Energy - Popularmechanics.com
The first offshore production wind turbine in the U.S. will likely be erected this summer off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and operational by fall, says Herman Schellstede, the chief technology officer of Coastal Point Energy LLC. Formerly called Wind Energy Systems Technology (W.E.S.T. LLC), the company holds leases to five tracts of submerged land in the Gulf of Mexico, totaling 84,000 acres. A second company, Baryonyx, holds leases to two more tracts.
Texas, king of wind power
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Old 05-17-2010, 12:34 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Texas, king of wind power
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Old 05-17-2010, 03:01 PM
 
Location: Abilene, Texas
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Great news!
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Old 05-17-2010, 09:28 PM
 
Location: classified
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Great for Texas but I believe Delaware is the first state to install offshore wind turbines.

http://http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/23/wind.turbines/ (broken link)

Massachusetts would have had them first but the Kenedy family who own a vacation home on Cape Cod objected saying it spoil the view and be unsafe for the enviroment.

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