New Jersey formally vacates Ocean Wind projects

Aug. 21, 2024
State’s Board of Public Utilities formally vacates orders that approved Ørsted’s proposed wind farms after a settlement.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has formally vacated all orders approving the Ocean Wind One and Ocean Wind Two projects owned by Ørsted that were originally set to be constructed off the coast of Ocean City.

On Aug. 14, the BPU accepted Ørsted’s motions to vacate the BPU order approving Ocean Wind 1 as a Qualified Offshore Wind Project and four orders granting the Ocean Wind 1 project easements on property owned by the City of Ocean City and the County of Cape May. 

The New Jersey BPU also granted the motion to vacate the order approving the Ocean Wind 2 project as a Qualified Offshore Wind Project.

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Bruce Beaubouef is Managing Editor for Offshore magazine. In that capacity, he plans and oversees content for the magazine; writes features on technologies and trends for the magazine; writes news updates for the website; creates and moderates topical webinars; and creates videos that focus on offshore oil and gas and renewable energies. Beaubouef has been in the oil and gas trade media for 25 years, starting out as Editor of Hart’s Pipeline Digest in 1998. From there, he went on to serve as Associate Editor for Pipe Line and Gas Industry for Gulf Publishing for four years before rejoining Hart Publications as Editor of PipeLine and Gas Technology in 2003. He joined Offshore magazine as Managing Editor in 2010, at that time owned by PennWell Corp. Beaubouef earned his Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1997, and his dissertation was published in book form by Texas A&M University Press in September 2007 as The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005.

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