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In Denmark, which leads the world in wind power, many of the biggest wind farms are built offshore in the waters of the North Sea. The burgeoning wind industry in the United States has yet to venture off land, but if a proposed power purchase in Delaware comes to fruition, a new 600-megawatt “wind park” off the Delaware coast may soon be supplying up to 17 percent of that state’s electricity.

“We really gave this thing a full-court press,” says Chad Tolman, Energy Chair for the Sierra Club’s Delaware Chapter. “This is a major victory for us.”

The chapter has been pushing for clean, renewable energy in the state ever since the Sierra Summit two years ago, and its efforts were assisted when the Delaware legislature responded to a nearly 60 percent electric rate increase last year by passing a law requiring the state’s biggest electricity supplier, Delmarva Power & Light, to seek proposals for a new source of “stable-priced, environmentally beneficial electricity generation.” Read entire story