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Cape Wind buoyed as SJC allows utility deal

The president of the company developing the Cape Wind project said today that he hoped that the controversial offshore wind farm could begin generating power within a year, now that the company has received a favorable decision in the state’s highest court. “Today is a really big day for Cape Wind, but it’s an even bigger day for clean energy in Massachusetts,” said Jim Gordon, whose company hopes to build a field of whirling wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. “This moves the project forward.” Gordon commented after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave its blessing to a novel power purchase agreement between Cape Wind and National Grid that was approved by the state Department of Public Utilities.

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