Setbacks and delays
The BPU will delay a series of projects to construct the onshore facilities needed to feed 4,890 megawatts of offshore wind energy into the regional electrical grid operated by PJM Interconnection. Those infrastructure projects will now be required to meet a new in-service service deadline of January 2033.
The BPU approved the projects in October 2022 under a regulatory pathway known as the State Agreement Approach, which enables states to propose a transmission project for PJM’s Regional Transmission Expansion Plan and assume the cost of the project’s build-out.
In 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a goal to increase the state’s offshore wind energy target from 7.5 gigawatts by 2035 to 11…
