Avangrid map showing Kitty Hawk WEA. Duck and Corolla are closest Outer Banks sites. Power would go to Virginia then back to North Carolina.There is energy production in the Outer Banks future. Clean energy, actually. Not oil, but a known resource just waiting to be exploited.It's wind energy.
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Posted on 2/2/2016
Energy Forum at Jennette's Pier
Coastal North Carolina is at the center of an energy goldmine. Listening to a panel of experts at a Outer Bank Chamber of Commerce luncheon today—Thursday—that message came amidst all the talk of renewable and alternative energies.
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