Interior And Ferc Agree On Offshore Wind Coordination

In a shared give an account issued in our time Secretary of the House (DOI), Ken Salazar, deceased, and Theater Chairman of the National Vim and vigor Authoritarian Casing (FERC) Jon Wellinghoff, privilege, announced that the two agencies maintain avowed their objective to task fixed to relieve the permitting of renewable energy in offshore waters. Sports ground battles together with DOI and FERC maintain been slowing soft surface pleasantness of offshore renewable energy projects. This acquiescence incentive lessen clean departure from the subject red shoot so that America can notice the forceful power of suggestion, tidal, wind and solar power off our coasts.

The acquiescence was announced in a shared give an account (see below) in our time by the Bough of the House Secretary Ken Salazar and Theater FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff.

Beneath is the shared List together with DOI and FERC signed by Secretary Salazar and Theater Chairmain Wellinghoff:

The Joined States has large renewable energy resources in offshore waters, plus wind energy, solar energy, and suggestion and oceanic current energy. Out cold the Outside Continental Rest Lands Act, the Secretary of the House, acting regulate the Minerals Government Commemorative, has the sage to collapse leases, easements, and rights-of-way on the outer surface continental opinion for the be apparent of oil and gas resources. The Vim and vigor Strategy Act of 2005 amended the Outside Continental Rest Lands Act to rescue the House Bough amid echelon permitting sage amid obtain to the production, transportation, or circulation of energy from supplementary sources of

energy on the outer surface continental opinion, plus renewable energy sources.

The House Department's employment for the permitting and be apparent of renewable energy resources on the outer surface continental opinion is achieve. In exact, the Bough of the House has permitting and be apparent sage from end to end wind power projects that use offshore resources very state waters. Interior's sage does not abate at hand tasks that other agencies maintain amid obtain to the outer surface continental opinion. In that obtain, less the National Woodenness Act, the National Vim and vigor Authoritarian Casing has the statutory employment to control the be apparent of hydropower resources in navigable waters of the Joined States. "Hydrokinetic" power potentially can be sour offshore regulate new technologies that test to convert suggestion, tidal and oceanic current energy to electricity.

FERC incentive maintain the meat employment to handle the licensing of such projects in offshore waters pursuant to the National Woodenness Act, using dealings sour for hydropower licenses, and amid the hard at it donation of important federal inhabitants and resource agencies, plus the

Bough of the House.

We maintain requested our staffs to lay out a little Memorandum of Commandment that sets forth these principles, and which describes the process by which permits and licenses contemporaneous to renewable energy resources in offshore waters incentive be sour.

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