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Wind Power News: New Jersey
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‘He knows we’re here’: Wind power critics protest Murphy to keep cables out of Sea Girt
More than 100 protesters who oppose a plan to connect offshore wind power cables through this beachfront community descended on the area Sunday during a visit by Gov. Phil Murphy, urging him to stop the project and claiming it’s a health hazard. Murphy was in town attending the New Jersey National Guard’s annual military review at its training center located just blocks from the Sea Girt beach. Supporters of the group Stop The High-Risk Power Cables, which represents homeowners in . . . Complete story »
Another New Jersey offshore wind project runs into turbulence as Leading Light seeks pause
Another offshore wind project in New Jersey is encountering turbulence. Leading Light Wind is asking the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to give it a pause through late December on its plan to build an offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Beach Island. In a filing with the utilities board made in July but not posted on the board’s web site until Tuesday, the company said it has had difficulty securing a manufacturer for turbine blades for . . . Complete story »
More than 1,000 residents rally against offshore wind project in Sea Girt & Manasquan: Community unites to expose hidden risks
Experts and citizens rally to protect coastal communities from industrialization threats. Risk around the amount of power running through the transmission line. A group of over 1,000 residents, both in-person and virtual, took a stand against offshore wind at an event held Monday night at the Senior Center. Organized by the local group Stop the High Risk Power Cables, the meeting brought together experts and officials from local, county, state, and federal levels to inform residents about the impacts of . . . Complete story »
NJ Board of Public Utilities formally terminates Ørsted offshore wind projects
August 14, 2024: Today the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities formally vacated all of its Orders that approved the Ocean Wind One and Ocean Wind Two offshore wind projects owned by the foreign offshore wind corporation Ørsted. NJBPU’s actions follow the filing of lawsuits by the County of Cape May in the New Jersey Appellate Division as well as in the Federal District Court. Cape May County challenged the BPU’s Orders, all of which have now be vacated and . . . Complete story »
Broken wind turbine blade ‘crisis’ fuels NJ beach disaster fears
A New Jersey anti-wind group is demanding the state stop giving the green light to new offshore wind projects as pieces of fiberglass continue to wash up on the beaches of Nantucket. The renewed calls for a moratorium on awards from the state Board of Public Utilities came from nonprofit Save Long Beach Island on Monday, several days after a wind turbine blade broke off the coast of Massachusetts. Bob Stern, president and co-founder of Save LBI, said a moratorium . . . Complete story »
New Jersey offshore wind ‘energy boondoggle’ faces fierce criticism from residents
The Biden administration earlier this month approved the construction of 195 wind turbines with the closest one just nine miles off the southern New Jersey coast line, causing uproar from residents in coastal towns. While the Biden administration and other environmental activist groups boast that the Atlantic Shores South project, nearly nine years in the making, is another milestone in the country’s harvesting of green energy, a former U.S. Department of Energy engineer raises alarm bells that not only is . . . Complete story »
The real impact of offshore wind energy transmission lines on shore communities
How many NJ residents would accept the power of 8 nuclear reactors running through their communities? One thing is clear from the research: the size and scope of each offshore wind energy project significantly affects the outcome, risks, and answers to what are still open questions. With no history of US offshore wind farms of the size and scope Governor Murphy and the NJBPU are proposing, coupled with consistent statements by the local governing bodies, state, and county executives about . . . Complete story »
N.J. will get $125M of the $300M set aside for offshore wind project cancellations
After previusly saying he would “fight like hell”, Governor Phil Murphy is pleased, moves up new bidding. New Jersey will receive $125 million from Ørsted – as opposed to the $300 million it was originally slated to get – after settling with the Danish developer that backed out on its plans for two offshore wind farms. State officials paired the agreement announcement Tuesday afternoon with news it would accelerate the window for more developers to bid for offshore wind projects to come . . . Complete story »
Wind farm opponents vow to “stay in the fight”
Opponents of offshore wind energy farms warned during a rally Saturday in Ocean City that the legal battle is far from over in their efforts to prevent what they called the “industrialization of our ocean.” Last year, the Danish energy company Orsted scrapped plans to build two wind farms off the South Jersey coast after concluding that the projects would not be worth the enormous development cost. However, opponents stressed during the rally that Orsted still holds the leases giving . . . Complete story »
Three groups are suing N.J. to block an offshore wind farm
Three anti–wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island. Save Long Beach Island, Defend Brigantine Beach and Protect Our Coast NJ filed suit in appellate court on April 26 challenging a determination by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that the Atlantic Shores wind farm project meets the requirements of a federal coastal protection law. Atlantic Shores is one of three . . . Complete story »
