Wind energy builders proposed 4 new tasks off the New Jersey Shore on Friday, a surge that might greater than double the variety of wind farms constructed off its coast if they’re accredited by regulators.
At the least two of them are greater than twice as far out to sea than others which have drawn the ire of residents who do not wish to see windmills on the horizon. These two wouldn’t be seen from the seashore, the businesses proposing them say.
They might be a part of three wind farms already accredited by New Jersey regulators because the state races to develop into the East Coast capital of the fast-growing offshore wind trade.
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Within the first undertaking to be made public Friday by the businesses proposing it, Essen, Germany-based RWE and New York-based Nationwide Grid utilized for permission to construct a wind farm within the waters off Lengthy Seashore Island. Their three way partnership is named Neighborhood Offshore Wind, and it goals to generate sufficient electrical energy to energy 500,000 properties.
Not like different tasks which have drawn intense opposition from householders partly as a result of they’re shut sufficient to the Atlantic Metropolis and Ocean Metropolis shorelines to be seen by beachgoers, this undertaking could be constructed 37 miles offshore and wouldn’t be seen from the shore, stated Doug Perkins, president and undertaking director of Neighborhood Offshore Wind.
He stated the undertaking has “the potential to rework New Jersey right into a nation-leading clear power growth, coaching and manufacturing hub.” He stated his firm is the second-largest wind energy developer globally, following Danish wind developer Orsted.
Neighborhood Offshore stated it has not but decided what number of wind generators could be constructed as a part of the undertaking.
The second bid was submitted by Chicago-based Invenergy and New York-based energyRE for a undertaking 40 miles off Lengthy Seashore Island referred to as Main Gentle Wind. It might include as much as 100 generators, sufficient to energy 1 million properties.
Land-based wind generators are seen in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photograph/Wayne Parry)
The corporate is taking part in up its American possession because the international possession of key gamers in New Jersey’s offshore wind trade has generated opposition in some quarters.
“Main Gentle Wind is able to construct out a world-leading home offshore wind trade with American-led ingenuity and experience,” stated Ryan Brown, energyRE’s chief working officer.
And the 2 corporations that acquired approval to construct the Atlantic Shores wind farm — Shell New Energies US and EDF Renewables North America — submitted a bid to construct a second as but unnamed undertaking 10 to twenty miles offshore. The businesses have lease areas within the massive expanse of ocean between Atlantic Metropolis and Barnegat Gentle on the northern tip of Lengthy Seashore Island, however they didn’t specify precisely the place the second undertaking could be constructed.
Additionally they didn’t say what number of generators it will embody or what number of properties its electrical energy may energy.
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Friday night time, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities stated a fourth utility had additionally been acquired, however wouldn’t launch any details about it. The corporate or corporations proposing it had not come ahead publicly to debate their plans.
Neighborhood Offshore and Main Gentle stated that whereas they plan to benefit from present federal tax credit, they won’t search the identical type of tax break that New Jersey lately accredited for Orsted, which is being challenged in a lawsuit introduced by opponents of offshore wind.
Atlantic Shores, which earlier this 12 months indicated it needed comparable tax reduction to that given Orsted, stated Friday it isn’t asking for something particular from state authorities however is in talks with the governor’s workplace, the utilities board and the Legislature about what could be potential.
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The proposals unveiled Friday come along with the three tasks already accredited by New Jersey regulators. Orsted is constructing two wind farms, referred to as Ocean Wind I and II. And Shell New Energies US and EDF Renewables North America are partnering on the Atlantic Shores undertaking.
