New Jersey Terminates Ocean Wind Projects Amidst Environmental Concerns, Tampa Free Press, 8/14/24

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has officially revoked its prior approvals for the Ocean Wind One and Ocean Wind Two offshore wind projects.

This decision comes after Cape May County filed lawsuits challenging the projects, citing environmental concerns.

". . . lease areas just a few miles off Cape May County beaches. As we have seen in Nantucket over the past few weeks, these industrial electricity-generating facilities represent an unacceptable threat to our environment and, consequently, to our local economy. In Nantucket, the disintegration of a single turbine blade has led to tens of thousands of pounds of fiberglass, foam, industrial adhesive, and other contaminants in the water and washing up on local beaches, which have had to be closed. We cannot allow that to happen to Cape May County.”

((Orsted, a Danish company, was the company that would have built them. Another article says the two projects combined would have come to 2248 MW -P))
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-terminates-ocean-wind-projects-amidst-environmental-concerns/ar-AA1oONvL

Soon after stepping into office, President Biden set a goal of ramping up US offshore wind capacity from just 42MW to 30,000MW by the end of the decade. The US is still far from that target, with active projects in the pipeline estimated in July to total 4,800 MW of new capacity if they make it to the finish line.