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NJ Offshore Wind Farm to Connect Onshore at 2 Former Power Plants
A large offshore wind energy project planned off the coast of New Jersey will connect onshore to two former power plants, and cables will run under two of the state’s most popular beaches
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NJ's First Planned Offshore Wind Project Faces Public Scrutiny
New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, Ørsted’s 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind, is generating hopes for the future as well as worries about the potential impact on the environment, fishing and tourism. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has reactions from the public who weighed in Tuesday at the first of three public hearings.
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What Biden's New Offshore ‘Wind Energy Area' Means for NJ, NY and US Clean Energy
The White House on Monday designated a portion of the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey and New York as a “wind energy area,” assuring hundreds of wind turbines will be coming this decade. Here’s what it really means.
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1,500 Wind Turbines. 2,700 Square Miles. Offshore Wind in the Atlantic Will Be Big. Really Big
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.
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1,500 Turbines. 2,700 Square Miles. Offshore Wind Is Coming to the American Coast
The first wave of offshore wind farms are being considered for the Mid-Atlantic between North Carolina and Massachusetts. Advocates are pushing for hundreds of the nearly Eiffel Tower-sized turbines by 2030. Here’s why they are considered key to America’s energy future.
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Offshore Wind Developer Signs Job Training Agreement with 6 NJ Labor Unions
Atlantic Shores, one of two developers with federal leases for offshore wind developments along the New Jersey coast, came to an agreement with local unions that could create “hundreds and hundreds” of clean energy jobs in the next decade.
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Projects to Transform the Philly Region: Thinking Big in 2021
The new Biden administration has some infrastructure experts thinking big, as the federal government under the Democratic president may fund projects to invigorate the economy like public transit expansion and offshore wind.
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‘We're Farming Sun': Pioneering Pennsylvania Farmer Ditched Corn Rows for Solar Panels
A Lancaster County farmer leased 30 acres of his land to a renewable energy company in 2012. For a few years, Community Energy’s solar farm was the largest in Pennsylvania. Farmland in Pennsylvania could help the state reverse its slide to the rear of the clean energy movement.
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South Jersey Port Plans Pioneering Construction of Offshore Wind Structures
A South Jersey port on the Delaware River is trying to become one of the first to get in on construction for offshore wind farms, which are expected to begin popping up all along the East Coast in the next decade.
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Biden Officially Introduces Buttigieg as Nominee for Transportation Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden officially introduced Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as his nominee for transportation secretary. Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position.
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Musk Oxen Have Survived Two Ice Ages; Can They Survive Climate Change?
The musk ox survived two ice ages and came back from near extinction. But their greatest threat to date might come from the unstable temperatures of climate change. Today, a musk ox farm in Alaska is working to preserve these ice age throwbacks.
Directed & Produced by: Matt Dworzańczyk
Production by: Etherium Sky Media