Ongoing Updates to Our Position on Wind

202x Offshore Windmill Updates

There are known problems with the windmills causing radar interference. These problems will be sure to cause safety issues for fishing vessels and other ships in the area of working windmills. The resolution for these issues will be shouldered by the vessels working in the windmill areas.

Wind farm planners have been proceeding as planned without advising what type platforms the windmills will have and without any environmental impact study.

Legislation was submitted, and fast tracked through the NJ assembly and senate that will by pass any local shore towns input in delivering wind power energy to shore location based substations..

All wind energy power north of Atlantic City that is installed off of New Jersey will be delivered to NYC Gowanis substations and Long Beach LI. , all without NJ receiving any  of this power.

Currently the New Jersey grid is managed by (PJM) a consulting/management service. Managing for contingencies in lapses of unreliable wind power (and solar) will be a very difficult task, when wind and solar are providing the majority of power.

All of the offshore wind energy for the Atlantic City windfarms can be replaced by half the output of one nuclear reactor and without drastic modifications to the current electrical grid. (as noted by engineers)

At this time there is no such thing as battery backup for the NJ power grid as the technology simply doesn’t exist, even though people talk about it as though it does exists.

Throughout all of the years of stakeholder meetings we have not been told about the operating details of the many offshore and onshore substations that will be required to deliver power to the NJ and NY power grid.

Windfarm substations operate by converting the electricity to a mode of electrical transportation, that will make it transportable back to an onshore substation where it can be used by the consumer. Because of the large amount of heat generated during the conversion located in the windfarm, these systems must be cooled when operating. The most common type of cooling system is an open loop system that intakes cool, filtered sea water and discharges warmer water back into the ocean. Chemicals are used in order to prevent growth in the system and keep pipes clean. This will result in localized thermal/chemical pollution, where the discharged water is warmer than the existing environment. High water temperatures and chemicals can stress marine organisms, and disrupt normal ecological processes.

All marine authorities agree that there are only approximately 400 (366 known) Northern Right Wales left in the Atlantic Ocean. Offshore wind power on the Atlantic coast will be in the whales north/south and south/north migration path. This will have a detrimental effect on the future of the species. There are only 70 female breeding Right Wales left.

Are many recreational fishermen going to want to safely fish under the three massive windmill blades whirring above their heads, even if they have access to them.

202x Offshore Windmill Updates

There are known problems with the windmills causing radar interference. These problems will be sure to cause safety issues for fishing vessels and other ships in the area of working windmills. The resolution for these issues will be shouldered by the vessels working in the windmill areas.

Wind farm planners have been proceeding as planned without advising what type platforms the windmills will have and without any environmental impact study.

Legislation was submitted, and fast tracked through the NJ assembly and senate that will by pass any local shore towns input in delivering wind power energy to shore location based substations..

All wind energy power north of Atlantic City that is installed off of New Jersey will be delivered to NYC Gowanis substations and Long Beach LI. , all without NJ receiving any  of this power.

Currently the New Jersey grid is managed by (PJM) a consulting/management service. Managing for contingencies in lapses of unreliable wind power (and solar) will be a very difficult task, when wind and solar are providing the majority of power.

All of the offshore wind energy for the Atlantic City windfarms can be replaced by half the output of one nuclear reactor and without drastic modifications to the current electrical grid. (as noted by engineers)

At this time there is no such thing as battery backup for the NJ power grid as the technology simply doesn’t exist, even though people talk about it as though it does exists.

Throughout all of the years of stakeholder meetings we have not been told about the operating details of the many offshore and onshore substations that will be required to deliver power to the NJ and NY power grid.

Windfarm substations operate by converting the electricity to a mode of electrical transportation, that will make it transportable back to an onshore substation where it can be used by the consumer. Because of the large amount of heat generated during the conversion located in the windfarm, these systems must be cooled when operating. The most common type of cooling system is an open loop system that intakes cool, filtered sea water and discharges warmer water back into the ocean. Chemicals are used in order to prevent growth in the system and keep pipes clean. This will result in localized thermal/chemical pollution, where the discharged water is warmer than the existing environment. High water temperatures and chemicals can stress marine organisms, and disrupt normal ecological processes.

All marine authorities agree that there are only approximately 400 (366 known) Northern Right Wales left in the Atlantic Ocean. Offshore wind power on the Atlantic coast will be in the whales north/south and south/north migration path. This will have a detrimental effect on the future of the species. There are only 70 female breeding Right Wales left.

Are many recreational fishermen going to want to safely fish under the three massive windmill blades whirring above their heads, even if they have access to them.

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