Offshore wind power company asks to cancel its New Jersey project

NJ SEED
Jun 10, 2025
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June 9, 2025 | app.com

A company developing an offshore wind power project for New Jersey has filed a request to cancel its plans, citing economic and political headwinds.

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, based in Brooklyn, petitioned the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on June 4 to terminate its OREC order, or Offshore Renewable Energy Certificates order.

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NJ SEED: The grand project to establish power generating wind farms off the NJ coast is essential to the Murphy Administration’s plan to abandon fossil fuels. It has, however, been plagued with problems every step along the way. Atlantic’s exit is just the latest setback.

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