The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced the availability of a final environmental impact statement for the construction and operation of Ocean Wind LLC’s proposed Ocean Wind 1 Offshore Wind Farm Project off New Jersey.
The proposed action is to approve the request to construct, operate, and maintain the project, which would include up to 98 wind turbine generators, up to 3 offshore high voltage alternating current substations, inter-array and substation interconnector cables, 2 onshore substations, and connections to the existing electrical grid.
BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein said her agency “continues to make progress towards a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a new clean energy industry in the United States,” calling offshore wind “a critical component of the Biden-Harris administration’s strategy to tackle the climate crisis, while creating good-paying jobs and ensuring economic opportunities are accessible to all communities.”
