Mid-Atlantic Bight

Mid-Atlantic Bight

The Mid-Atlantic Bight is a coastal region running from Massachusetts to North Carolina.[1] It contains the New York Bight.

References

  1. ^ Svenvold, Mark (2008). "Wind-Power Politics". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/magazine/14wind-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-09-15. "The amount of power Dhanju was describing, Mandelstam knew from Kempton, was but a small fraction of an even larger resource along what’s known as the Mid-Atlantic Bight. This coastal region running from Massachusetts to North Carolina contained up to 330,000 megawatts of average electrical capacity." 

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