Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced the leases, which will allow the construction of meteorological towers to collect wind data for specific sites off the Atlantic coast states of New Jersey and Delaware.
The recipients are Bluewater Wind New Jersey Energy, Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey, Deepwater Wind, and Bluewater Wind Delaware. The developers will scout sites between six miles and 18 miles (9-30 kilometres) offshore.
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