Two minor state permits remain outstanding. The project already has all of the major state permits it needs, said Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Environmental Protection Agency still must be obtained, which Orsted estimates will happen by the second quarter of 2024. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the U.S. The wind farm would power 500,000 homes.Īdditional approvals from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved a construction and operations plan for Ocean Wind I, a wind farm to be built by Danish wind energy company Orsted between 13 and 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic City.

(AP) - The federal government gave the go-ahead Wednesday for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction, clearing the way for the first of at least three - and likely many more - such projects in a state trying to become the East Coast leader in wind energy.

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