Jersey Shore windmills could power 1.5M homes in 12 years
After years of talking about developing offshore wind farms, New Jersey is finally moving forward.
The state Board of Public Utilities has been fast-tracking a plan to build giant turbines out in the Atlantic Ocean off the Jersey Shore after Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order a few months ago that calls on the Garden State to generate 3,500 megawatts of offshore wind by the year 2030.
That would power more than 1.5 million homes in New Jersey.
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RES Americas and US Wind Inc. have secured the rights to build wind farms on more than 300,000 acres of seafloor. Another company, Statoil, could also construct a wind farm as off the Jersey coastline.
Read full story at New Jersey 101.5.
