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October 2019, Mayflower Wind won Massachusetts' second offshore wind contract. Mayflower proposed bringing cables onshore in Falmouth, Massachusetts. 
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Falmouth meeting June 2022, residents were 90 percent against the cable project. February 2023, Mayflower Wind changed its name to SouthCoast Wind. SouthCoast Wind put the Falmouth project on hold at the Massachusetts Energy Facility Siting Board.
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SouthCoast Wind proposed bringing all its offshore power to the proposed High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station,  Brayton Point, Massachusetts, in 2023 through the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Portsmouth accepted the cable route through a community agreement in 2024.  The cable route is from the offshore location through land in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to Brayton Point in Massachusetts
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On January 17, 2025, three days before President Trump took office in what was described as "throwing gold bars off the Titanic." President Biden signed the SouthCoast Wind construction and operation plan. The Town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, had disagreed, threatening legal action with the 106 section of the permit process and safety issues. 
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement was still investigating the July 13, 2024, Vineyard Wind blade failure with 50 tons of microplastics, foam, and balsawood washing up in the environment when President Biden signed the SouthCoast Wind COP federal permit. 
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More bad news: 
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Massachusetts, according to the Section 83C schedule, SouthCoast Wind was supposed to sign a power purchase agreement with various power companies by November 8, 2024. The contract negotiations were postponed to January 15, 2025. On January 15, 2025, negotiations were again pushed out to March 31, 2025. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities could approve the contracts by May 9, 2025. 
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But:
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While SouthCoast Wind is negotiating with electric companies for a power purchase agreement with a completion date of March 31, 2025, they do not yet have the Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board permit to bring their cables through Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The permit, more than likely, will not be approved by March 31, 2025 
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Note # 1 SouthCoast Wind Project lacks Rhode Island Permit  
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Note # 2, 
January 18, 2025, the Prysmian Group abandoned plans to build an ocean cable plant at Brayton Point, Somerset, MA.  
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Note # 3 
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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