How a Tiny New Jersey County United to Defeat Giant Ocean Wind Turbines

Published on November 21, 2023

When Orsted, the giant Danish energy company, abandoned plans to construct 200 massive wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean off southern New Jersey, residents and elected officials in Cape May County celebrated. “We were told time and time again, you can’t take this company on,” said Leonard C. Desiderio, director of the Cape May County Board of Commissioners, at a press conference on Nov. 1. “Well guess what. They didn’t know little Cape May County. They didn’t know what they were up against. We were a fortress.” In a statement announcing the end of the Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 wind farms, Mads Nipper, group president and CEO of Orsted, cited supply chain challenges, project delays, and rising interest rates....

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