Deficiencies in Dominion’s offshore wind permits

[rangerrebew]

Deficiencies in Dominion’s offshore wind permits
By
David Wojick
|
February 3rd, 2025
 
“In light of various alleged legal deficiencies underlying the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects, the consequences of which may lead to grave harm…” is the conclusion that guided President Trump’s Executive Order suspending wind project permitting.

CFACT has already criticized several offshore wind permitting cases for being inadequate due to the omission of important issues, making them incomplete. Some of the worst cases are listed below. Although Dominion was not the subject of all of these criticisms, they are undoubtedly affected by them. Plus Dominion permits were the focus of many of these criticisms going back more than two years.

These characteristics apply to every instance of a permit deficiency. A substantial approval is supported by a formal document. These include the authorized COP, the Final NEPA EIS, the ESA Biological Opinion, and the MMPA Incidental Take Authorization. In each case a critical issue is overlooked in one or more of these permitting documents, making them incomplete.

The relevant federal agency disregarded these deficiencies in each instance. However, the Trump administration is currently looking at the history and procedure of offshore wind permits. In each of the circumstances stated below, if the investigation is done correctly, they should discover incomplete approval paperwork, halt the approval until it is finished, and then reissue it.

https://www.cfact.org/2025/02/03/deficiencies-in-dominions-offshore-wind-permits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deficiencies-in-dominions-offshore-wind-permits&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deficiencies-in-dominions-offshore-wind-permits

[DefiantMassRINO]

Offshore wind turbines are economically inefficient and unreliable - they generate electricity at a natural rate $/kWh (when it is windy) that is much higher than the market rate for that generated with more reliable, proven natural gas, coal, oil, nuclear, etc.

Econonomic security and national security are harmed by wasting limited energy infrastructure financial resources on unreliable, expensive offshore wind.

[GtHawk]

Just a quick question, whatever happened to tidal and wave generation, there was a time when you heard a lot about that and then nothing but offshore wind.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Tidal wave energy would be a collection of small projects with less economy of scale for those profiting from Government subsidies.

Offshore Wind Farms offer potential for a smaller number of large projects where Big Wind can achieve efficiences-of-scale to maximize profits from Government subsidies.

In short, Black Rock can steal more money, more quickly, at lower acquisition cost per dollar with Offshore Wind Farms than with Tidal Wave Energy Facilities.