Last week, the renewable energy unit of Paris-based Electricite de France SA announced it had agreed to buy the project from Fishermen’s in order to gain a toehold in the New Jersey market. The wind farm will be about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the coast. The Sierra Club has opposed the project, saying it is too close to shore.

The world’s largest offshore-wind developer, Orsted A/S, and a second company, US Wind Inc., have federal leases to develop a 344,000-acre area in the Atlantic Ocean. That site is also off the coast of Atlantic City but farther out to sea.

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