The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will provoke the environmental assessment of a proposed wind vitality mission offshore New Jersey.
At its closest level, the roughly 81,129-acre lease space, OCS-A 0549, referred to as Atlantic Shores North, is situated 8.4 miles from the New Jersey coast and roughly 60 miles from New York.
The Atlantic Shores’ proposal at present consists of set up of as much as 157 wind turbine mills, eight offshore substations, one everlasting meteorological tower, and two non permanent metocean buoys – for a complete of as much as 168 offshore constructions. The plan additionally proposes two potential export cable corridors that may make landfall at: Sea Girt, New Jersey, and in both the New York City space or close to Asbury Park, New Jersey.