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October 05, 2009
BLUE
H USA PRESS RELEASE
Blue H USA announces its application to the US Army Corps of
Engineers for a deepwater offshore wind
platform.
Blue H USA, LLC announced it has
submitted an application to the US Army Corps of Engineers to deploy a
deepwater floating offshore wind platform in federal waters on the Outer
Continental Shelf , approximately 23 miles southwest of Martha's
Vineyard, Massachusetts. The US Army Corps of Engineers received
Blue H USA's submission on August 21, 2009, has ruled that Blue H USA's
application is complete, issued a Public Notice on September 15, 2009,
and will accept public comments on the application until October 15,
2009.
A primary objective of the platform is to
assess the suitability of the location for deployment of a utility-scale
deepwater offshore wind farm (known as “Project Belinda”). The floating
platform will be installed at a water depth of 53 meters and will gather
both engineering and environmental data useful to Blue H USA and
environmental and resource agencies.
This temporary facility is not subject to
Minerals Management Service (“MMS”) lease requirements, pursuant to MMS
policy dated February 10, 2009. As such, Blue H USA’s application to the
US Army Corps of Engineers supersedes its previous Nomination for Lease
submission to MMS in March of 2008.
Blue H installed the world’s first
prototype floating wind turbine in the summer of 2008 in the Strait of
Otranto, opposite the municipality of Tricase in Puglia, Southern Italy.
The Company is currently building its first operational 2.4 MW unit in
Brindisi, Italy, which it expects to deploy at the same site in the
Southern Adriatic Sea in 2010, the first in the planned 90 MW Tricase
offshore wind farm, located more than 20 kilometers distant from the
beautiful coast line of Puglia.
Blue H believes in having turbines designed
for an offshore environment, light weight but robust, and easy to
service and maintain, since maintaining wind turbines at sea can be an
expensive process. In particular, all Blue H offshore turbines are
designed to have only two blades, which, amongst other things, avoid the
need for the use of costly crane barges when rotor blades ever need to
be changed at sea.
For further information please contact
Raymond A. Dackerman (908) 499-2191.
Email:info@bluehusa.com
Website: www.bluehusa.com
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Press Releases
October 05,
2009 - Blue H USA announces it application to the US Army Corps of
Engineers for a deepwater offshore wind platform
July 07,
2009 - Blue H selected for private placement by Succès
Europe
March 12,
2009 - Blue H Prepares for Authorization of the World's First
Deepwater Wind Farm
February
24, 2009 - Blue H's Project GEOMA selected by Italian Government
January 14,
2009 - Project Deepwater Turbine
January 13, 2009
- Energy Technologies Institute Unveils First Projects to benefit from
£1.1 Billion Initiative
October 23,
2008 - Consortium Northwester Applied for Offshore Wind Concession
October 15,
2008 - Blue H France SAS Created
July 3, 2008 -
Blue H USA Massachusetts Congressional Delegation Letter of Support
March 10, 2008
3, 2008 - Blue H USA Submits Nomination For Lease
December 6,
2007 - Blue H Launches World's First Floating Wind Turbine
December 6,
2007 - Technical Note
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