Offshore Wind in the News

Offshore wind is feeding families, creating opportunities
Trentonian
May 9, 2024
As the owner of a small business in Norwood, New Jersey, I’m proud to say that offshore wind has created a significant pipeline of opportunities for my company and employees. It has allowed my business to grow and create new jobs, while also contributing to the clean energy transition. But most important, it’s helped me — and a growing number of others like me — to expand our businesses in spite of the challenges of COVID, inflation, and other economic headwinds.
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Offshore wind does more than aid NY, NJ clean energy futures
Public News Service
April 9, 2024
Despite different outcomes - New York's first offshore wind farm came online and New Jersey had one canceled - both states are benefiting from offshore wind. Job creation and economic growth are predicted, as New Jersey's decarbonization efforts could create 20,000 jobs.
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Community college’s pioneering center for N.J.’s offshore wind farms
NJ.com
March 27, 2024
Beginning in April, Atlantic Cape Community College’s Wind Training Center will begin offering safety courses aligned with Global Wind Organization standards. The facility and program are both the first of their kind in NJ.
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Offshore wind project proposed for New Jersey would have 157 wind turbines off coastline
CBS Philly
March 16, 2024
An offshore wind power project proposed for New Jersey would have 157 turbines and be located 8.4 miles (13.5 kilometers) from shore at its closest point, data released by the federal government Friday shows.
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Op-Ed: The steps needed to get offshore wind back on track in 2024
NJ Spotlight
March 13, 2024
Offshore wind holds too much potential to grow jobs and our regional economy, is too essential a tool for hitting our clean-energy goals, and too critical a power generation source for our growing electricity needs to simply let this opportunity languish instead of forging ahead with a better plan.
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Offshore wind supporters pitch prospect of major jobs boost
NJ Spotlight
March 1, 2024
It’s a generational job growth opportunity, supporters of the nascent industry say. “Offshore wind represents the biggest opportunity, probably, for New Jersey, for our economic future,” said Tim Sullivan, the CEO of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. “Surely for South Jersey, there is no bigger economic opportunity presenting itself for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of jobs and careers over the next 30, 50, 100 years.”
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Empowering American labor: A clean energy revolution to combat climate change
ROI-NJ
February 13, 2024
With every major problem comes a major opportunity, and climate change is no different. Right now, we are on the precipice of a clean energy revolution in this country, and we once again have the opportunity to be international leaders in developing, investing in and building power generation that provides for all our energy needs while reducing our emissions. This is not pie-in-the-sky idealism, but what we can do when we invest in technology like offshore wind, solar and other carbon-free power generation, and put the best trained, most capable laborers in the history of mankind in charge of making sure it gets built.
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