The US offshore wind industry has faced some choppy waters in past years, including demonstrably false accusations of whale-killing and the impact of a maritime law dating back to 1920. Nevertheless, the clouds are clearing. Somewhat ironically, much of the new offshore activity is taking place hard by former President Trump’s old stomping grounds, in the waters of New York and New Jersey.
Marine experts who examined the whale did not mention a possible cause to the media, since they were still collecting evidence. Nevertheless, POCNJ weighed in.
The first such SOV was christened in May under the umbrella of the global offshore wind developer Ørsted and the Louisiana shipbuilderfrom New Jersey lawmakers for its Ocean Wind 1 and 2 projects last summer, only to cancel them abruptly just a few months later. Ørsted citedThat issue now appears moot with the newly christened ECO Edison SOV setting sail.
“Together, Project 1 and Project 2 expected to generate up to 2,800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power close to one million homes with clean renewable energy,” BOEM noted.