Offshore Wind

American offshore wind farms, of which there are 17 in the works for the Atlantic Ocean, are no longer far off on the horizon. The overall magnitude of this emerging renewable energy industry is starting to take shape.

Ørsted, an offshore wind developer first in line to erect turbines off the New Jersey coast, hired two companies to bring the offshore power onto land. One company is from New Jersey while another is based in Kansas City.

With a significant expansion of wind energy on the cards, companies and infrastructure will need to adapt.

The news marks the latest progression for a project that’s been in the works for some time.

If one small hearing about a single electrical cable coming ashore in a Jersey Shore town is any indication, emotions are blowing strong about the offshore wind energy in the U.S. That’s particularly true in New Jersey, where a gold rush is underway for the right to lease tracts of the ocean floor for wind energy projects involving thousands ...

Jersey Shore residents raised concerns Monday night during a public meeting on a wind farm project that would be installed miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean.

The federal government auctioned off 762 square miles of Atlantic Ocean real estate last week for future offshore wind farms. Most of the businesses willing to pay very high prices are based in Europe, continuing a dominance by foreign energy giants. One American bidder said he hopes the U.S. government changes the way the auctions are conducted....

The auction by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is the first offshore wind lease sale under President Joe Biden.

Developers say construction will soon begin on the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project to gain approval in the United States

More than $26 million in fees paid for by developers of New Jersey’s offshore wind farms will go to the state in an agreement approved this week, and officials say the money will pay for research and monitoring of hundreds of turbines to be erected in the years ahead.

The U.S. still has a long way to go before it catches up with more mature offshore wind markets such as the one found in Europe.

In two polls out this week ahead of the New Jersey governor’s election Nov. 2, climate change was scarcely seen or heard. Pollsters say the issue simply doesn’t resonate with voters as their most important concern when it comes to electing their next governor.

Seven offshore wind farms would be developed on the East and West coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico under new plan from the Biden administration