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Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Receives Final Environmental Impact Statement for Project 1 & 2.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Atlantic Shores Project 1 and 2.

New Jersey has established the goal to achieve 100% clean energy by 2035, with offshore wind projected to create 11,000 megawatts of power by 2040.

Atlantic Shores Project 1 has an offtake agreement to generate 1,510 MW of offshore wind energy, enough to power over 700,000 homes. Combined with Project 2, the entire lease area will produce enough clean energy to power more than 1 million New Jersey homes.

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Awards Creamer-Jingoli Early Work Contract for Engineering & Design Services

Creamer-Jingoli has been selected to engineer and design the full onshore underground cable route for Atlantic Shores Project 1.

The early works contract scope includes detailed design for the 12 miles of underground infrastructure running from the project’s landfall in Atlantic City to the point of interconnection in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County.

Creamer-Jingoli will support field surveys, environmental sampling, robust subsurface utility engineering work, and site preparation for the duct bank installations that will house cables connecting offshore wind power to the New Jersey electric grid.

NJBPU Opens Fourth Solicitation for 1.2 to 4 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind

Governor Phil Murphy and New Jersey BPU President Christine Guhl-Sadovy recently announced the approval of the fourth offshore wind solicitation guidance document and the opening of the fourth offshore wind solicitation.

The fourth solicitation seeks to award between 1.2 - 4 gigawatts of offshore wind generation capacity. In the process of meeting New Jersey’s procurement goals, the fourth solicitation aims to encourage competition, promote economic development, and combat climate impacts, all at the lowest reasonable cost and lowest risk to New Jersey ratepayers.

The application window opened on April 30th, and will close on July 10th.

NJEDA Approves Creation of $7M Green Workforce Training Grant Challenge

The NJEDA Board recently approved the creation of the Green Workforce Training Grant Challenge. The $7 million grant program will prepare New Jersey residents for green economy careers, with a particular focus on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion and serving overburdened communities.

The Grant Challenge is a competitive funding opportunity, where applicants will be asked to submit proposals that outline their plans to develop and implement workforce supports to bolster the green economy, with a focus on overburdened communities.

Grants from $250,000 up to $1.5 million are available. Eligibility requirements and a formal application will be available mid-2024.

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Atlantic Cape Community College Wind Training Center

Atlantic Cape Community College’s new, 1,700-square-foot Wind Training Center at the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City campus officially began Global Wind Organization (GWO) Basic Safety Training classes in April.

The training program and supporting facility enable the state to strengthen its leadership position in offshore wind energy.

Atlantic Cape broke ground on October 28, 2021 on the Wind Training Center as part of a $2.9 million grant from the State of New Jersey aimed at growing the state’s offshore wind industry.

The Wind Training Center provides the GWO Basic Safety Training courses in four modules:

Working at Heights

Correctly use personal fall protection equipment (PFPE)
Perform safe working at height
Perform safe basic rescue from height in a remote wind turbine environment

Manual Handling

Demonstrate correct manual handling techniques
Understand the risks involved in not using correct manual handling techniques

First Aid

Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of carrying out first aid in a safe manner
Demonstrate correct use of first aid equipment

Fire Awareness

Identify any signs of fire
Follow emergency escape procedures
Correct operation of fire extinguishing equipment

Registration is now open for interested candidates.

For more information, please visit www.atlantic.edu/windtraining, contact wind@atlanticcape.edu or call (609) 343-5655.

Stevens Institute of Technology Senior Design Project

by John Benigno, Assistant Director, NJEDA

The NJEDA Infrastructure Team finished another successful year of a great partnership with Stevens Institute of Technology. Over the 2023-2024 academic year, a group of Steven’s Engineering students worked diligently on several engineering projects related to the NJ Wind Port.

These topics included the design and planning of a logistics pier to be utilized for port construction, a value engineering analysis for future wharf foundation design, and conceptual design of an ecofriendly tugboat that would be purpose built for use at the Wind Port. Work on these projects provides students with real life engineering challenges that has the students interface directly with the engineering and construction industry.

As part of the program, students visit the active construction of the NJ Wind Port, meet regularly with EDA technical staff and their consultants, and prepare deliverables for reporting purposes.

The students recently presented their work at the annual Stevens Innovation Expo held on April 26th. The EDA team thanks the students for their hard work and wishes them best of luck in their future careers!

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

Phase 1 is currently under construction and anticipates substantial completion in fall 2024. Phase 1 includes a 30- acre marshaling space containing a heavy-lift wharf and uplands that will facilitate the offloading, testing, inspection, and pre-assembling of wind turbine generation components before their installation offshore. This process is commonly referred to as OSW Marshaling.

The wharf is 1,080 linear feet and comprises delivery and installation berths to support load-in and load-out operations. Further, the pile-supported pier has a load-bearing capacity of 6,200 pounds per square foot at the concrete deck surface.

The port has also been future-proofed with the inclusion of a breasting dolphin and two mooring dolphins to accommodate a US flagged wind turbine installation vessel.

To date, all dredging associated with Phase 1 has been completed in coordination with NJEDA partners, the NJDOT Office of Maritime Resources and AECOM-Tishman. The access channel and berth areas are dredged to -35.5 feet, with an installation berth pocket of -47.5 feet.

Parcel B1 commenced construction for Stage 1 earthwork operations January 2024 and has completed initial filling operations, wick drain installation, and geotechnical monitoring instrumentation installation.

Surcharge embankment construction, MSE wall construction, and geotechnical instrumentation monitoring is actively on-going and progressing well.

The Parcel B1 earthwork project is approximately 50% complete. A test pile program consisting of 44 precast concrete piles was completed in April 2024 to inform the wharf design for B1.

Parcel C1 surcharge embankment was fully removed in early May 2024 and the area prepared for future sitework construction operations.

FIGURE 1: Parcel A uplands have received subbase and base course layers of aggregate that reflect the finished product (see fig. 1). Upon completion, the uplands area is rated for 3,000 psf long-term and 4,800 psf short-term (~1 year) static loading of wind turbine generation components.

FIGURE 2: Figure 2 shows the current construction status of the main substation as of April 2024. This work will include the substation and the duct bank that houses the conduit for transmission power from the substation to the various wind port parcels.

Another critical part of Phase 1 is the completion of the wind port’s main electrical substation, which will provide power to Parcel A and all other future parcels planned in the property’s total development.

To receive power, Atlantic City Electric is constructing approximately 13 miles of new transmission line from an existing substation in Quinton Township to conduct power to the port.

Parcel G Advanced Sitework and Main Substation are at various stages of completion and are progressing well. Construction consists of roadway modifications, temporary stormwater drainage, electric duct bank construction, and associated substation infrastructure.

The expected completion of all work associated with power transmission to the wind port is in the fall of 2024.

Phase 2 permitting is progressing broadly on schedule, as is design. Development is slated to begin in 2025.

Goal Expectation	Commitment	Percentage
MWVBE Goal 15%	$138,994,249.99	47.31%
SBE Goal 3%	$77,070,679.80	26.23%
SDVOB Goal 3%	$8,419,044.60	2.87%
Local Business	$161,825,231.49	55.08%

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NJ Manufacturing Assessment and Gap Analysis

As New Jersey emerges as a key player in the US offshore wind industry, a comprehensive assessment conducted by the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Attentive Energy sheds light on the state’s manufacturing sector and its potential to support these large scale renewable energy projects and foster local economic growth.