Without additional community action, foreign-owned Deepwater Wind LLC will land its 138,000-volt electric cable on Wainscott Beach (aka Beach Lane) and then run energized lines throughout Wainscott. While we are very supportive of alternative energy sources (e.g., wind, solar) and conservation, installing permanent power line infrastructure in the water and on land (including at least 20 permanent vaults the size of ocean shipping containers along the land route) will permanently alter an already fragile, eroding beach and community. Deepwater itself has identified multiple viable and more reasonable alternatives to a Beach Lane cable landing.
