Developer Considers Building 1,000-Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm
Garden State Offshore Energy is thinking about nearly tripling the size of its proposed offshore wind farm project, a decision that would mean building 1,000 megawatts of generating capacity more than 16 miles off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties.
The company, a joint venture between PSEG Global and Deepwater Wind, is one of four currently vying to build offshore wind farms. Its original proposal, which called for a 350-megawatt project, has won funding from the state of New Jersey and is one of several projects hoping to win approval from the Board of Public Utilities (BPU).
Now, with the state agency set to unveil its rules today governing how it will determine what offshore wind farms move forward, Garden State is considering asking the state to allow it to build practically the entire amount of wind capacity legislation signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie.
“That’s the option we are leaning toward very heavily,” said Rob Gibbs, a vice president of Garden State Offshore Energy. Its partner in the venture, Deepwater Wind, recently proposed building a similar scale project in Rhode Island Sound, he noted. Read more…
