Anyone taking the temperature of local support this summer for wind farms planned off the Long Beach Island coast would know it runs near frigid most days. Still, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind submitted a bid to the N.J. Board of Public Utilities earlier this month to expand its initial wind farm project, first approved in 2021.
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, the bidding entity representing Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50-50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US and EDF-RE Offshore Development, is the provisional winner of block OCS-0541 in the New York Bight offshore wind auction.