Bluewater Wind Brings Clean Renwable Energy, Price Stability,Energy Security and Reducing Global Warming

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Bluewater Wind is a developer ofoffshore wind energy committed

to bringing clean, reliable and affordableelectricity to New York/LIPA, Delaware,Maryland, New Jersey, and Rhode Island


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Bluewater Wind teamDesigned or built 22 of 28 offshore wind projects in the world

Aqua Survey

Tetra Tech MSE Power Systems Downes Associates Energy Initiatives Group

Alston & Bird Malkin & Ross Milbank Tweed Young, Sommer LLC Wolf Block Marsh Insurance

Ramboll

Fluor Vestas

SEAS

A2SEA

ABB

AWS TrueWind

Garrad Hassan

EMD Ocean Surveys


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Bluewater Winds parent company, Babcock & Brown, is one of

the top four wind developers and operators in US and world Financial strength: B&B is an international investment and

specialized fund and asset management group Over $70 billion in assets under management

US 20 windparks 1,585 MW inoperation

worldwide(not including US)

46 windparks 1,025 MW inoperation


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Offshore Maine Wind Power:

Price Stability, Energy Security,and Reducing Climate Change;

Opportunities & Impediments


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Outline

Climate Mitigation

Price Crisis

Approvals State by state competition

State and Federal action steps Development stage challenges

Delaware lessons

OSW benefits construction photos


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Department of Energy and Wind

Association Agree: 20% by 2030

304,000 MW of US installed capacity by

2030, with offshore 60,000 MW of that Electric sector CO2 cumulative reductions of7.6 billion metric tons

Electric sector CO2 net reduced by 825million tons annually (=20% of sector CO2 ifno new wind by 2030)

DOE estimates NPV investment of $43 Billionor 50 cents per month per household

Hurdles: supply chain, transmission, NIMBYs


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Carbon Explosion:Truth Increasingly Inconvenient

Al Gore chart that launched a thousand OpEds; changed debate in Delaware

Obama and McCain both support Carboncap and trade

Climate models forecast accelerateddisruptions


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Wind as Major Wedge in Carbon

Reduction No single cure: Wind, (solar), energyefficiency, transportation shift to hybrids

and plug-in bi-directional electric vehicles Wind is only planet-wide, commercially

viable, utility scale, non-proliferatingelectricity technology

Project carbon footprint eliminated after

operating 9 months

Deep Green: wind and hydrogen replaces

hydrocarbons


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Energy Supplies:

Supply Globalized; Affects Localized

Oil, Natural Gas, even Coal now globally

priced and transported Appalachian mountaintops sliced off and

burned in Chinese power plants

77% of all oil owned by governments who actin non-economic ways increasingly: Chavez,Putin, OPEC


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Global Energy Price Crisis

Demand overwhelms Supply

US energy prices inexorable rise:

World Natural Gas $20 v. US Price $12.40 Russian, Iranian growing Nat Gas cartel

Coal price rise in US: Appalachian coal up82% in last year

Nukes: Uranium futures up. IEA shows onlystable supply with new replacing retirees


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Approval ProcessFederal, State & Local Reviews

Federal Regulations and Reviews Energy Policy Act 2005

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972

Rivers and Harbors Acts of 1890 and 1899

Clean Water Act of 1977

Navigation and Navigable Waters

Federal Aviation Administration National Environmental Policy Act

Archaeological and Historic Preservation Actof 1974

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Estuary Protection Act

Marine Protection, Research, and SanctuariesAct

US Coast Guard

Marine Mammal Protection Act

Magneson-Stevens Conservation andManagement Act

Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Abandoned Shipwreck Act Approval for Private Aids to Navigation

State Regulations,Permits & Approvals

DNREC- State Environmental Review

(associated with NEPA)

Coastal Federal Consistency Certification

Subaqueous lands permits and leases Wetlands permit

Section 401 Water Certification

NPDES Storm Water Permit

Air Quality Permits

DNREC- Div. of Fish and Wildlife

DNREC- Div of Parks and Recreation

Beach Preservation Act of 1972

Delaware PSC

DE River Basin Commission

DE Heritage Commission

DE Economic Development Office DE Energy Office

DelDOT

Local Authorities To be participant in NEPA/State review

Municipalities with potential visible impacts

Local communities transited by onshore cable route

Building permits as required

June 2006, Confidential


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State-by-State

Competition for Projects

Many states competing for fewdevelopers

State policy and incentives different Site approval and project approval

processes should be open, transparent,predictable, and timely


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State & Federal Action Steps

MMS working diligently to promulgate rules

States issue RFPs

Robust RPS Pay for cables from project to shore

Require utilities to buy long term renewables


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Development Stage Challenges

Time between bids and financial closing

Stakeholder outreach and education Industry Hurdles: supply chain andtransmission

Disruptive competition with fossil sales NIMBYs


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Delaware project

25-year PPA with Delmarva Power: up to 300 MW in anyhour including all associated RECs and most capacity

Max annual output of 1,357,402 MWhs of electricity for113,000 Delaware households

RFP bid to be approved by four state agencies: PSC,DNREC, OMB, and Controller General

20-year PPA with DEMEC: for most of the remaining power(and associated RECs) not sold to Delmarva Power

Project completion: 2013 or 2014 (scheduled)

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Supporters of the Bluewater

Delaware Wind park US Senator Tom Carper Lt. Governor John Carney Delaware Treasurer Jack Markell

Delaware Insurance CommissionerMatthew Denn Delaware Municipal Electric

Corporation Citizens for A Better Sussex Citizens for Clean Power Coalition for Climate Change Study

and Action Delaware Audubon Society Delaware Building & Construction

Trades Council

Delaware Nature Society Endecon, Inc. Epworth United Methodist Church Green Delaware

League of Women Voters Natures Path of Integrated Health News Journal Editorial Board

Delaware Chapter of Sierra Club Society of Natural History St. Andrews School Unitarian Universalists of Southern

Delaware

City of Dover City of Lewes

City of Milford

City of New Castle

City of Newark

City of Seaford Town of Clayton Town of Middletown


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Offshore wind works Offshore wind parks: 28 in 10 countries

Operational since 1991

Current installed capacity: 1,250 MW

Offshore wind parks currently under

construction: 13 with a capacity of 1,503 MW Over 20,000 MW permitted for construction in

the waters around Europe


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Offshore Wind Energy Works

Offshore wind turbines inEurope generateelectricity 70-90% of thetime

Sites identified by

Bluewater in NE willgenerate electricity 85 89% of the time

Grid balances energyproduced by windgenerators, depending onlocations


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Stable-priced energy

Price of wind electricity is stable overthe life of a wind park:

Fixed up-front costs and no fuel costs Low and predictable operations and

maintenance costs

Wind energy avoids future compliancecosts re: climate change/CO2 limits,

RGGI, and other pollution regulations


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Fuel diversity

Wind is a domestic energy source and isinexhaustible

Fuel is independent of marketfluctuations and international politics

Low risk for complete power outages

since each turbine is an independentgenerator; traditional power plants relyupon one large generator


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Environmental benefits

No carbon contribution to global warming, ocean acidification No air pollution (SO2, NOx, mercury)

No water pollution or sea level rise

No CO2 No waste

No fuel deliveries

No mining or drilling

No intake/discharge of water for cooling

No land use for generation equipment offshore

On land wind is compatible with farming and ranching

No noise pollution Promotes recreational/ commercial fishing with artificial reefs

created by foundations


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Site selection:

careful professional analysis Meteorologists

Geologists and geo-technical professionals

Electrical engineers and grid interconnection specialists

Foundation structural engineers Construction, transport and logistics specialists

Wind turbine manufacturers

Marine and avian biologists


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Environmental lessons from

Danish Offshore Wind Studies

Results to date show: Minimal ecological impacts

Plants and animals continue to thrive

Principles of the Danish studies: Use multiple monitoring techniques before, during, and

after wind park construction Keep scientific community engaged

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Extensive studies at European sites

revealed no significant bird problems

Observation platform

Radar

Infrared camera

Aerial surveys


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Risk of avian collisions is low

displacement still studied

Before wind park After wind park

Radar tracking of bird flights

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Foundations create artificial reefs

Offshore wind energy can reduce


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Offshore wind energy can reduce

the need for electricity frompolluting sources

Pollution avoided per year from a450 MW offshore wind park

CO2 (lbs) 1.35 billionSOX (lbs) 14.4 million

NOX (lbs) 5.17 millionSource: Analysis based on data provided in Assessment of Delaware OffshoreWind Power, University of Delaware. Dhanju, Whitaker, Burton, Tolman, and

Jarvis. September 2005.

Economic development: Delaware Example


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Economic development: Delaware Example

$1.6 Billion investment

500+ local union jobs to be

created during construction80+ union O&M jobs for 25 years

$200+ million directeconomic impact for theDelaware workers

Clean, high-tech industryOnshore and offshoreconstruction

B ildi Wi d P k


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Building a Wind Park Continuous public outreach Development, planning and design

-Grid Interconnection

-Initial Environmental Assessment Construction and installation Operation & maintenance

Decommissioning


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Offshore electrical design

Connection toexisting grid at

substation

Offshore transformer platforme.g., 35 kV / 138 kV

Shore

Submarine cable to shoreWind turbines array

35 kV submarine cables

B ildi ff h i d k


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Building an offshore wind park

setting the foundations


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Special installation vessel

provides stable work platform


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Turbine delivery and installationMultiple trips required to and from staging area

I t ll ti f t iti i


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Installation of transition piece

between tower and foundation


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Preparation for lifting a rotor

Lif i i h


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Lifting a rotor at night


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Installing a transformer platform

Arklow Bank,


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,Ireland

25 MW project

Nysted,


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Nysted,Denmark

165 MW project

Activities can continue


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Activities can continue

around the turbines

Boats are welcome in

our wind parks, canmaneuver freely insideof them

Clearance from watersurface to blade tip at

six oclock positionis 115 feet

CONTACT INFORMATION


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CONTACT INFORMATION

Peter Mandelstam

[email protected] Sahl

[email protected] Wind

22 Hudson Place

Third Floor

Hoboken, NJ 07030

201.420.1195

Offices in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island

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mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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For more information on wind

energy onshore and offshore

American Wind Energy Assn awea.org

British Wind Energy Assoc. bwea.org

Utility Wind Integration Group uwig.org

University of Delaware

www.ocean.udel.edu/windpower/

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