Plans to build a giant wind turbine in the Chesapeake Bay have blown away.
Just last month, the Virginia Marine Resources Commissions approved the plan by the Spanish company Gamesa to put a turbine three miles off the coast of the eastern shore.
At its highest point, the blades would reach 479 feet high.
That's as high as the Westin in Virginia Beach Town Center.
But today, the company that was going to build it announced it’s building the prototype in Spain instead of Virginia.
Gamesa says the prospects for the U.S. offshore energy market and its regulatory conditions "do not justify" the construction of the Virginia prototype.
