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    Wind Energy Breathing New Life into Sparrows Point

    Written by Tim Triplett


    An offshore wind developer plans to breathe new life into Sparrows Point, former home to Bethlehem Steel, with ambitious plans for electricity-generating wind farms off the coast of Maryland.

    Through a long-term lease agreement with Tradepoint Atlantic, the 3,300-acre multimodal logistics and industrial center that encompasses the former mill site, US Wind is investing $77 million to develop 90 waterfront acres into a new wind deployment hub. Now under way is its first major project, a 22-turbine wind farm known as MarWin. Also on the drawing board, pending permits and approvals, is the Momentum Wind project, which would develop up to an additional 1,200 MW of offshore wind energy.

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