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11:29 am on Sunday July 20, 2014
Feds to announce SC ocean wind tracts in North Myrtle Beach
South Carolina's nascent wind power industry will take a significant step forward in September when the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management identifies the offshore tracts available for lease to wind power farms.
It is also significant that the...
9:48 pm on Wednesday September 11, 2013
Coastal wind energy in Southeast could be big, but far off
While the Southeast coast could tap much energy from coastal winds, don't expect any major developments in the near future.
5:56 am on Thursday August 2, 2012
Hands Across the Sand, "a powerful way to say no to offshore drilling"
Flickr User: Ana.Campos
This Saturday, August 4, 2012, people from all 50 states and 40 countries around the world will join hands in protest offshore drilling and support clean energy.
The Hands Across the Sand movement started on February 13, 2010...
10:43 am on Saturday February 25, 2012
Locally owned Wind Turbines hopes to create renewable energy source
Flickr user borisvolodnikov
On Thursday, a wind turbine display got quite a bit of attention--and helped to spread the word of turning wind into renewable energy.
"South Carolina has been slow in getting onto the renewable energy grid, but it's...
12:19 pm on Tuesday February 21, 2012
NMB exploring wind powered future (Update: pictures of 2nd Ave turbine, info)
Update 2/21/2012 4:12 p.m.: The newest turbine is up and turning in North Myrtle Beach.
Crews worked to calibrate the 2.5 kilowatt wind turbine while representatives talked with the press and locals. North Myrtle Beach lawyer and Chamber of...
5:32 am on Wednesday July 13, 2011
Coastal Carolina University contributes to development of offshore wind energy
Flickr user Wessex Archaeology
Thanet Wind Farm
The development of offshore wind energy along the Atlantic Coast is gaining momentum thanks in part to Coastal Carolina University, The North Strand Wind Team and the City of North Myrtle Beach.
A...
8:27 am on Monday April 11, 2011
Charleston getting $98 million wind turbine research site (update: what's to come)
Image by Rebecca Dalhouse/Clemson UniversityUpdate April 11: Wind-turbine testing center has attracted interest from various energy companies, leading to plans to create a five-building campus.
Over the next two years, $175 million will be invested...
4:39 am on Wednesday October 20, 2010
Santee Cooper finds 'significant electric power' in S.C.'s offshore winds
Image by Flickr user Martin Pettitt Big, mean wind turbines -- and also something S.C. is nowhere near ready to install yet.
Update October 20: After a yearlong wind study conducted by Santee Cooper, six buoys in the ocean from 1 1/2 miles to 12...
6:14 am on Thursday March 11, 2010
German company coming to Dorchester, creating 190 jobs
Image by IMO One of IMO's slew rings.
Update March 11: The Charleston Regional Business Journal has a story with additional details and background; read it here.
First reporting: Live 5 News has a text and video report on the news. On the upside I...
3:04 am on Thursday January 14, 2010
Governor says no, but $7M in state funding will make it to Charleston wind research site
Image by Flickr user Martin Pettitt
Gov. Mark Sanford opposed the notion that government and not private dollars were being spent to fuel a wind research site at the Clemson Restoration Institute in North Charleston, still the funding made it past...
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