This state is about to get the nation’s biggest-ever offshore wind farm — with enough energy to power nearly 400,000 homes
Story by Tina Deines •
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The Biden administration recently approved what will become the nation’s largest offshore wind farm to date, with the capacity to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
In July, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its approval to move forward with the construction of Ocean Wind 1, which will be located 13 nautical miles southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The project will include 98 wind turbines and three offshore substations to help get the wind-generated electricity to shore.
This marks the Biden administration’s third approval of a commercial-scale offshore wind energy project. The Vineyard Wind project, off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was approved in May 2021, and the South Fork Wind Project, off the coast of New York and Rhode Island, was approved in November 2021, Quartz reports.
There is some pushback, however, with many worried about the turbines’ possible impact on endangered North American right whales, of which fewer than 350 remain. Local residents sued Vineyard Wind in 2021, alleging that the wind turbines harm them. This fear was heightened after a number of recent right whale deaths.
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