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  • 22 January 2021
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has launched a USD 15 million fund to support businesses in New Jersey to enter the offshore wind industry. The Pro-NJ Grantor Trust will offer New Jersey-based small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses support in re-tooling their businesses to enter the offshore wind industry. It will also provide funding for infrastructure resiliency improvements critical to […]

  • 21 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Anbaric Development Partners has submitted a portfolio of 19 offshore wind power transmission projects in New Jersey, called the Boardwalk Power Link projects, to PJM Interconnection in the solicitation the regional electricity grid operator is conducting on behalf of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). PJM Interconnection launched the solicitation in April, looking for qualified […]

  • 12 May 2021
    Grid Connection

    Anbaric Development Partners has concluded the second set of oceanographic survey activities for its Boardwalk Power Link (BPL) project which will connect offshore wind energy to New Jersey’s onshore grid. Led by ESS Group in concert with Ocean Surveys, the two sets of surveys looked specifically at geological seabed conditions for the planned subsea cable […]

  • 10 November 2015
    Authorities

    The New Jersey Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee approved an amendment to the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act yesterday, which requires the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to open a “window” to solicit new proposals for a small demonstration wind project off of Atlantic City.  Fishermen’s Energy, the company behind the Atlantic City Wind […]

  • 20 March 2014
    Authorities

    Fishermen’s Energy Atlantic City Windfarm (FACW) has been rejected once again by the New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities. During a meeting yesterday, the Board unanimously voted against the construction of the proposed 25MW offshore wind farm. The Board explained that the project poses a large financial risk and that electric bills would have been […]

  • 1 November 2019
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) will hold a public stakeholder meeting on November 12 to discuss how New Jersey should plan its transmission system to accommodate the scenario where offshore wind plays a major role in the State’s energy future. The public meeting will have a conference format and will have a […]

  • 26 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Fugro has received a contract renewal from Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind for the provision of real-time wind and metocean measurements off the coast of New Jersey in the US over the next two years. The award is the latest in a set of three contract renewals between Fugro and Atlantic Shores based on a successful […]

  • 5 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renewable Energy has entered into a preliminary agreement with Fishermen’s Energy to acquire the 24MW Atlantic City Wind Farm project located offshore New Jersey, US.

  • 15 July 2021
    Authorities, Environment

    More than 110 (current and former) elected officials from across the US State of New Jersey have signed a letter of support for the responsible development of offshore wind in the state. The signatories have highlighted that for New Jersey, an average wind farm being considered is estimated to create 4,300 jobs and add USD […]

  • 29 May 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) is advancing the state’s fifth offshore wind solicitation, commencing the round more than a year ahead of its original timeline. The state’s Board of Public Utilities announced on 28 May that it is moving up the next solicitation for additional offshore wind projects from the third quarter […]

  • 18 July 2014
    Authorities

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank have announced the proposed sale of leases for nearly 344,000 acres offshore New Jersey for commercial wind energy leasing. “Responsible offshore wind energy development has the potential to create jobs, expand our domestic clean energy resources, and strengthen […]

  • 19 December 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) has announced that it has received approximately $1.1 million through the State of New Jersey’s Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program. The Program enables companies to raise cash to finance their growth and operations and is administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and the New Jersey Department of […]

  • 22 September 2022
    Authorities

    New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a new executive order on 21 September, increasing the state’s offshore wind target for 2040 from the current 7.5 GW to 11 GW. Together with signing off the new offshore wind goal, the Governor also announced the release of two reports focused on the creation of green jobs in […]

  • 18 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has signed supply and service contracts for the 1.1 GW Ocean Wind offshore wind farm in New Jersey, which will use the company’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbines. The contracts, subject to final notice to proceed, cover the GE Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine with an option for Ocean Wind to utilise the […]

  • 23 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    The New Jersey Wind Council has released a report detailing plans for creating the Wind Innovation and New Development (WIND) Institute. The WIND Institute will serve as a center for education, research, innovation, and workforce training related to the development of offshore wind in New Jersey and the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. To inform its […]

  • 12 August 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Last week, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez visited Steel Pier in Atlantic City, where it was officially announced that Fishermen’s Energy will receive up to $47 million in federal grants over the next four years from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Program for its Atlantic City Wind Farm offshore wind energy demonstration pilot project. Senator Menendez discussed the […]

  • 30 January 2013
    Grid Connection

    The Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) developers are gathering political support for the New Jersey part of the project, the first offshore backbone electricity transmission system proposed in the United States, which would link the offshore wind generators to the mainland via subsea cables. Although the developers are presenting the New Jersey link as a cost-effective […]

  • 18 February 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    The US electric transmission project developer Anbaric Development Partners will participate in an upcoming competitive solicitation process for an offshore wind transmission solution in New Jersey. The company has teamed up with DNV GL to prepare a bid for the solicitation announced in November 2020 by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and […]

  • 5 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted, the developer of the Ocean Wind project proposed to be built off New Jersey, will open an office in Atlantic City next month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced at the International Partnering Forum (IPF) 2018 in Princeton. 

  • 24 March 2016

    Fishermen’s Energy has asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to sign the bill S988, and thus open the way for job creation in the offshore wind industry.  Ten days ago, the bill, which requires New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to provide new application periods for qualified wind energy projects, passed the state’s Senate. However, the biggest […]

  • 17 August 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The US State of New Jersey has argued that its residents will be ”irreparably harmed” if the 1.1 GW Ocean Wind offshore wind project is not exempt from a permanent injunction against the use of GE Haliade-X wind turbines on offshore wind projects in the USA sought by Siemens Gamesa. Back in June, a jury […]

  • 17 June 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    The US State of New Jersey plans to build the New Jersey Wind Port on the eastern shore of the Delaware River, with the construction expected to begin in 2021. The New Jersey Wind Port is described as a first-in-the-nation infrastructure investment that will provide a location for staging, assembly, and manufacturing activities related to […]

  • 18 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    German energy company EnBW Energie-Baden-Württemberg AG is opening an office in New Jersey at the end of the year to serve as the base for EnBW’s participation in offshore wind opportunities in New Jersey and New York.

  • 29 March 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Training & Education

    Stockton University is today playing host to a forum to discuss how New Jersey can benefit from expanding offshore wind industry on the U.S. East Coast. The Offshore Wind Energy Forum kicks off after the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) federal sale last November of two leases for offshore wind energy development of 344,000 […]

  • 16 August 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has granted a motion submitted by Ørsted on 1 July, requesting the BPU vacate the orders issued for the two Ocean Wind projects offshore New Jersey after the developer cancelled the projects last year. On 14 August, the BPU accepted Ørsted’s motions to vacate the BPU order […]

  • 2 October 2018
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics

    The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) is seeking ideas from qualified entities with perspectives on offshore wind port infrastructure and supply chain development in New Jersey.