Wind energy builders proposed 4 new initiatives 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 accepted by regulators.
At the very least two of them are greater than twice as far out to sea than others which have drawn the ire of residents who don’t wish to see windmills on the horizon. These two wouldn’t be seen from the seaside, the businesses proposing them say.
They might be part of three wind farms already accepted by New Jersey regulators because the state races to change into the East Coast capital of the fast-growing offshore wind business.
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Within the first venture 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 known as Group Offshore Wind, and it goals to generate sufficient electrical energy to energy 500,000 houses.
Not like different initiatives which have drawn intense opposition from owners partially as a result of they’re shut sufficient to the Atlantic Metropolis and Ocean Metropolis shorelines to be seen by beachgoers, this venture could be constructed 37 miles offshore and wouldn’t be seen from the shore, stated Doug Perkins, president and venture director of Group Offshore Wind.
He stated the venture has “the potential to rework New Jersey right into a nation-leading clear vitality improvement, coaching and manufacturing hub.” He stated his firm is the second-largest wind energy developer globally, following Danish wind developer Orsted.
Group Offshore stated it has not but decided what number of wind generators could be constructed as a part of the venture.
The second bid was submitted by Chicago-based Invenergy and New York-based energyRE for a venture 40 miles off Lengthy Seashore Island known as Main Mild Wind. It could encompass as much as 100 generators, sufficient to energy 1 million houses.
Land-based wind generators are seen in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photograph/Wayne Parry)
The corporate is enjoying up its American possession because the international possession of key gamers in New Jersey’s offshore wind business has generated opposition in some quarters.
“Main Mild Wind is able to construct out a world-leading home offshore wind business with American-led ingenuity and experience,” stated Ryan Brown, energyRE’s chief working officer.
And the 2 corporations that obtained 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 venture 10 to twenty miles offshore. The businesses have lease areas within the giant expanse of ocean between Atlantic Metropolis and Barnegat Mild on the northern tip of Lengthy Seashore Island, however they didn’t specify precisely the place the second venture could be constructed.
Additionally they didn’t say what number of generators it will embrace or what number of houses its electrical energy might energy.
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Friday night time, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities stated a fourth utility had additionally been obtained, however wouldn’t launch any details about it. The corporate or corporations proposing it had not come ahead publicly to debate their plans.
Group Offshore and Main Mild stated that whereas they plan to make the most of current federal tax credit, they won’t search the identical kind of tax break that New Jersey lately accepted for Orsted, which is being challenged in a lawsuit introduced by opponents of offshore wind.
Atlantic Shores, which earlier this yr 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 is perhaps attainable.
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The proposals unveiled Friday come along with the three initiatives already accepted by New Jersey regulators. Orsted is constructing two wind farms, known as Ocean Wind I and II. And Shell New Energies US and EDF Renewables North America are partnering on the Atlantic Shores venture.