摘要: |
Energized by social media and publicity over winter whale strandings, opponents of offshore wind projects pushed one New Jersey town to literally pull the plug on Orsted's Ocean Wind 1 plan. The Ocean Wind 1 export cable would come ashore on the barrier island at Ocean City, N.J., go under the back bay and connect to the grid through an electrical substation at Beesley's Point in Upper Township on the mainland. The connection survives from one of New Jersey's last coal-fired power plants, the defunct 447-megawatt B.L. England generating station. Upper Township officials laid out a redevelopment plan for the Beesley's Point neighborhood, envisioning a waterfront district, potentially with a hotel and marina, on the Great Egg Harbor River. To facilitate the plan, town officials, meeting Feb. 27, proposed moving the substation - Orsted's preferred connection to the regional power grid -and faced a standing-room-only crowd of opponents. |