The US Department of the Interior has approved the Atlantic Shores South offshore wind energy project – the country’s ninth commercial-scale offshore wind energy project approved under the current administration.
With today’s approval, the US has approved more than 13GW of clean energy from offshore wind energy projects, enough to power nearly five million homes.
The Atlantic Shores South wind project consists of two wind energy facilities — Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1 and 2 — and associated export cables, which are expected to generate up to 2.8GW of electricity, enough to power close to one million homes with renewable energy.
The project is located some 14 km off New Jersey at its closest point and is developed by a joint partnership between Shell and EDF.
To provide energy to New Jersey, Atlantic Shores South proposed up to 200 total wind turbine generators and up to 10 offshore substations with subsea transmission cables potentially making landfall in Atlantic City and Sea Girt, New Jersey. However, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved the construction of up to 195 wind turbine generators.
In other recent developments regarding US offshore wind, Avangrid received full federal approval of the construction and operations plan for the New England Wind 1 and 2 offshore projects, formerly known as Park City Wind and Commonwealth Wind.
