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As Seen In BusinessWeek

June 26, 2008

BusinessWeek a leading business magazine and online journal, recently published a piece highlighting ongoing efforts by Massachusetts-based Cape Wind to build the first offshore wind plant in the United States. The project, planned for the Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, would include 130 wind turbines producing 420MW of clean, renewable energy according to the company’s website.

AWS Truewind provided BusinessWeek with wind resource maps and data for offshore New England as illustrative support for the article. Offshore maps were provided for the Gulf Coast and the Great Lakes region as well for a more national perspective. The maps were used to create the Shore Winds graphic which accompanies the full article which can be accessed here.

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