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Oct 3, 2008 1:25 pm US/Eastern

NJ Designates Firm To Build Offshore Wind Farm

NEWARK (AP) ― Garden State Offshore Energy has won a bid to build New Jersey's first offshore wind farm -- one of the first such facilities in the nation.

The company is a joint venture of PSEG Renewable Generation and Deepwater Wind. It was chosen from five proposals as the preferred developer of a 350-megawatt wind farm that will be able to continuously generate power for 125,000 homes.

The proposed wind farm will have 96 turbines in a rectangular grid 16 to 20 miles off the coast of Cape May and Atlantic counties. The company says the facility will barely be visible from the shore and may start generating energy by 2012.

The state offered a $19 million grant -- a fraction of the cost of building a wind farm -- as part of a wider push to explore renewable energy sources.

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