Cape Wind Energy Project, Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket Sound. Record of Decision

摘要

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Cape Wind Associates President Jim Gordon signed the nation's first lease for commercial wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) on October 6, 2010. The project area offered in the lease is comprised of approximately 46 square miles on the OCS in Nantucket Sound offshore Massachusetts. The 33-year lease for the area off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. will cost the company $88,278 in annual rent prior to production, and a 2 to 7 percent operating fee during production. The fee is based on an estimate of what the project's output would sell for in regional markets.