Alliance To Protect Nantucket Sound, Inc., et al. v. Department of Public Utilities, et al., 461 Mass. 166 (Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct. 2011)

(court upholds 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Cape Wind and National Grid (largest utility in Massachusetts); National Grid had agreed in late 2010 to buy half of Cape Wind's offshore output beginning in 2013 at 18.7 cents per kWh, coupled with a 3.5% annual increase; PPA had been approved by Department of Public Utilities (DPU) which ruled that project benefits outweighed costs; court determined that DPU properly determined that environmental benefits will accrue to all National Grid customers; court's decision largely moot because wind farm project never likely to be built because project has been denied federal loan guarantees and no investor willing to buy other half of power generated that is not under contract with National Grid).