Triangle - Representatives from South Carolina as well as North Carolina met in Charlotte in June to discuss opportunities for collaborating to accelerate a growth of offshore breeze energy on a south Atlantic seaboard. The assembly is being heralded as a poignant initial step towards regional collaboration for offshore breeze in a Southeast.
The objective of a two-state assembly was to explore ways to leverage each states unique experience, knowledge, as well as resources to accelerate a deployment of offshore breeze energy in a way which is mutually beneficial to both states. Our states are uniquely positioned with strengths as well as advantages which complement each other. pronounced Elizabeth Colbert-Busch of a Clemson University Restoration Institute. Some of a initial opportunities which were discussed included enabling various research institutions to combine on future research projects as well as exploring a possibility of an offshore breeze energy project along a NC/SC border.
Represented organizations included U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River National Laboratory, Santee Cooper, N.C. Offshore Wind Coalition, N.C. Department of Commerce, N.C. Solar Center, N.C. Energy Office, N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, S.C. Energy Office, Clemson University Restoration Institute, Coastal Carolina University, S.C. Coastal Conservation League, North Strand Coastal Wind Team, as well as City of North Myrtle Beach.
An Impressive Resource
According to a report by a National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 33 percent of a total East Coast offshore breeze potential within 50 miles of a shoreline is located off a coast of North as well as South Carolina as well as both states have offshore breeze energy resources which exceed their current installed electricity generation capacity. Based on a report, North Carolina as well as South Carolina have a largest offshore breeze energy resources in shallow H2O on a Atlantic Seaboard, pronounced Ralph Nichols Wind Energy Program Manager at a! Savanna h River National Laboratory. Indeed, if one looks at breeze potential in shallow H2O (less than 30 meters) as well as some-more than 12 miles from a shore, an important consideration in limiting visual impacts, a figures are even some-more impressive, with a Carolinas alone holding some-more than half of East Coast resource. Adding Virginia as well as Georgia bumps which figure to over 82 percent. This excellent breeze resource, combined with superb port comforts in a region, should attract investment by utilities as well as a offshore breeze industry, pronounced Nichols.
Other Advantages
The Carolinas not only have an impressive energy resource, though may additionally have some distinct business advantages. This is an attention where about 10 percent of a cost is materials as well as 90 percent is labor, as well as which represents a poignant advantage for a lower-cost labor markets of a Southeast to attract manufacturing, pronounced Jen Banks of a N.C. Solar Center. That energetic helps to insist why there are currently over three thousand people in a Carolinas already employed in a breeze attention supply chain despite not having a single utility-scale breeze farm handling in either of a two states.
While a Carolinas have already started to explore options for collaboration, a groups are additionally open to talking with neighboring states. Regional solutions are ultimately what make sense for a United States offshore breeze industry, pronounced Brian OHara, President of a NC Offshore Wind Coalition. Hamilton Davis of a SC Coastal Conservation League agrees. This is a great initial step in organizing a Southeastern states as well as working together towards some common goals.
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Contacts:
Shannon Helm, N.C. Solar Center, 919.515.0353, shannon_helm@ncsu.edu
Hamilton Davis, S.C. Coastal Conservation League, 843.810.4178, hamiltond@scccl.org
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, Clemson University Restoration Institute, (843) 437-9095, ebusch@exchange.clemson.edu
ABOU! T THE NO RTH CAROLINA SOLAR CENTER
Created in 1988, a North Carolina Solar Center, as partial of a College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU), works closely with state as well as local government as well as a renewable energy industry. It manages as well as maintains a NCSU Solar House as well as serves as a apparatus for innovative, green energy technologies by research as well as demonstration, technical assistance, education, outreach as well as training. It additionally administers a Database of Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE), a apparatus providing financial incentives as well as policies. For some-more report please visit: www.ncsc.ncsu.edu.
ABOUT THE SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE
The South Carolina Coastal Conservation Leagues mission is to protect a natural environment of a South Carolina coastal plain as well as to enhance a quality of a life of a communities by working with individuals, businesses as well as government to ensure balanced solutions.
ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA OFFSHORE WIND COALITION
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a obliged growth of offshore breeze energy in North Carolina by policy, education, as well as outreach efforts. The Coalition receives broad await from a variety of non-profits, mercantile growth groups, as well as attention members.
ABOUT THE SOUTH CAROLINA ENERGY OFFICE
The South Carolina Energy Office (SCEO) provides a broad range of resources designed to help citizens, businesses as well as public entities save energy as well as money. In recent years, a SCEO has helped save South Carolina over $250 million by public as well as private energy-saving measures as well as new energy technologies. The SCEO is a unit of a South Carolina Budget as well as Control Board. Additional report can be found at www.energy.sc.gov.
ABOUT THE CITY OF NORTH MYRTLE BEACH
North Myrtle Beach serves as a proof city in building a local economy as ! well as building energy independence using livable, tolerable principles by projects, plans, as well as policy. Sponsored by Partners for Livable Communities, a American Chambers of Commerce Executives, as well as a Institute for Sustainable Development, a City of North Myrtle Beach is recipient of a 2011 Green Plus Small Community of a Year Award for exceptional leadership in tolerable mercantile growth as well as is recognized for their public-private partnerships to advance a tolerable economy. The City will host a second annual Southern Wind conference in December 2011. For some-more report please visit: http://www.nmb.us/
ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1978, a NC Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit membership organization of individuals, businesses, government as well as non-profits working to ensure a tolerable future by promoting renewable energy as well as energy efficiency in North Carolina by education, public policy as well as mercantile development. NCSEA has been a go-to leader in shaping North Carolina's commitment to renewable energy, energy efficiency, high performance building as well as smart grid jobs as well as mercantile opportunities in communities all across a state. Learn some-more at www.energync.org.
ABOUT THE NORTH STRAND COASTAL WIND TEAM
The vision of a North Strand Coastal Wind Team is to establish a community-based breeze energy program as well as tolerable energy plan in a City of North Myrtle Beach in collaboration with a city as well as other strategic partners. The North Strand Coastal Wind Team will seek to develop breeze energy resources for a City of North Myrtle Beach, to facilitate this initiative, as well as partner with other organizations. This is being be accomplished by: introducing a campaign to a community by educational programs as well as research; building a economy to emanate a conducive environment for breeze industry; acting as a liaison to attract breeze energy businesses; ! represen ting North Myrtle Beach on a subject of offshore breeze farms; as well as working to ensure maximum mercantile impact from breeze energy growth for a region. For some-more report please visit: www.northstrandcoastalwindteam.org.
ABOUT THE CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESTORATION INSTITUTE
The Clemson University Restoration Institute was established in 2004 to drive mercantile growth by creating, building as well as fostering restoration industries as well as environmentally tolerable technologies in South Carolina. Now, a Restoration Institute is attracting world-renowned faculty, students as well as staff dedicated to creating a knowledge-based, export-oriented attention cluster which will partner with other institutions as well as a private sector to position South Carolina as a premier home of restoration believe as well as expertise.
ABOUT COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
Coastal Carolina Universitys Burroughs as well as Chapin Center for Marine as well as Wetland Studies has been an active participant in exploring South Carolina offshore breeze apparatus potential in collaboration with other state as well as regional partners. Center staff have served on a states Regulatory Task for on Clean Energy, a SC Climate, Energy as well as Commerce Advisory Committee as well as other breeze as well as natural marine apparatus advisory panels as well as studies. The Center recently finished a Palmetto Wind study in concert with North Carolina State University deploying six ocean/atmospheric observational buoys for one-year to gather physical measurements of a cross-shore gradient in a coastal breeze fields as well as waves as well as currents along two transects off a northern SC coast from a beach out to 12 miles.
ABOUT THE SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy promotes obliged energy choices which emanate global warming solutions as well as ensure clean, safe as well as healthy communities throughout a Southeast.
ABOUT THE SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY&#! 13;The S avannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a Department of Energy (DOE) - Office of Environmental Managements inhabitant laboratory at a Savannah River Site (SRS). SRNL puts science to work to await DOE as well as a nation in a areas of environmental management, inhabitant as well as homeland security, as well as purify energy. The management as well as handling contractor for SRS as well as SRNL is Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC.
ABOUT SANTEE COOPER
Santee Cooper is South Carolinas state-owned electric as well as H2O utility, a states largest power producer as well as additionally its leader in renewable energy. The ultimate source of electricity for 2 million South Carolinians, Santee Cooper is dedicated to being a states leading apparatus for improving a quality of life for a people of South Carolina. For some-more information, visit www.santeecooper.com.
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