After nearly a decade of review, the Dept. of Interior gave the go-ahead for the nation’s first offshore wind farm the $1 billion Cape Wind project off the coast of Nantucket on April 28. The facility could be operational by as soon as 2012.
But the Interior Dept. says it will require the developer of the controversial project, Cape Wind Associates, LLC to modify its proposal to minimize potential adverse environmental and aesthetic impacts of construction and operation of the facility.