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As Avangrid and Orsted waffle on wind farms off the southern New England coast amid runaway costs, two more big developers are pushing ahead undeterred for a big installation off New Jersey — presumably at a price point that could raise the bar on what Connecticut and other states will have to pay to get the wheels turning on wind power. Attentive Energy announced it would bid on a power purchase agreement from New Jersey for a new proposed wind farm, the same day Avangrid ann...

“Based on this (consultation) work, I will not be declaring the area west of Wilsons Promontory for offshore wind development,” Mr Bowen said. “The environmental risks associated with developing here are just too great. “Victorian Energy) Minister D’Ambrosio and I are in agreement on this.

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Green Oceans, a Little Compton-based citizens group that fiercely opposes offshore wind farms, is in the midst of a civil lawsuit it has filed against the state Coastal Resources Management Council …

Unions, business and green policy experts fear the “moon shot” promise to hit net zero electricity by the end of the decade is doomed to fail.

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The approved legislation opens the door for highway solar installs, state purchases of clean energy and much more.

Each turn of the turbine’s blades will provide enough energy to power an average home for two days.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, in a 4-0 vote, authorized staff to extend the deadline for the third time by which so-called “contingent projects” — that have submitted projects in New York or Rhode Island — should be taken out of the running for approval in New Jersey. In that situation, approval in another state likely would mean developers would not want, or have the resources or corporate capacity, to pursue a project in New Jersey.

Companies looking to develop wind turbine projects must negotiate contracts with utilities companies to provide them with power. SouthCoast Wind, a developer planning to build a wind turbine farm about 30 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, procured contracts to supply power in Massachusetts in 2020 and 2021. SouthCoast Wind revealed its plans to withdraw from its original contracts earlier this summer, saying in a filing with the Rhode Island Energy Facility Board that the project was n...