It seems that while the NIMBY’s (not in my back yard) are doing everything they can to slow down the process of Cape Wind, the progressive people of Texas are taking the lead over the short sighted Cape Codders (edit: while some Cape Codders are against this project, the majority of the people funding the opposition are rich tourists, people with ties to big oil and the mega rich that want to keep Nantucket sound as their personal yacht club, sorry for the error) (never thought I would write something like that).

A Louisiana company plans to install the first of 50 wind turbine platforms 10 miles off Galveston Island this week, moving the project closer to its goal of becoming the first U.S. offshore wind farm.

Galveston Offshore Wind, a division of Wind Energy Systems Technologies, plans to install a former oil production platform in about 50 feet of water in the coming days. At first weather-data-gathering instruments will sit on top of a tower some 300 feet above sea level, but by September the company hopes to have its first wind turbine in place.

By 2010 the $240 million development plans to have as many as 50 wind turbines installed, generating 150 megawatts of peak output, or about enough power for 45,000 homes, said Herman Schellstede, CEO of the companies.

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The U.S. has the third-largest installed base of wind capacity, behind Germany and Spain, with 11.6 gigawatts. But the U.S. had the largest amount of new capacity added last year, with 2.5 gigawatts of equipment worth about $4 billion installed. Texas accounted for about one-third of all new wind generation installed in 2006 and overtook California as the top wind-energy-producing state, with 2,768 megawatts of capacity.
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