The Biden administration approved construction Tuesday of a wind project off New Jersey that could provide electricity to 1 million homes.
Atlantic Shores South would be built 9 miles offshore in two phases with an aim of generating about 2,800 megawatts of power, the equivalent output of nearly three nuclear reactors.
The project wind array is the ninth U.S. wind farm green-lighted since President Joe Biden took office promising to rapidly scale the industry and reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil energy.
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The administration has approved enough wind farms to power roughly 5 million homes. The first are under construction or recently completed off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia.
