Staten Island to add offshore wind staging port, an effort to fight the climate change crisis

Back in October 2023, the New York government proposed a new 10-Point Action Plan to fight the climate change crisis. 

amNewYork email newsletterThe City Planning Commission voted to approve the Arthur Kill Terminal, a project that has been on continuous development since 2018.According to Arthur Kill’s official website, it “will support the timely and efficient installation of thousands of megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity in the region, which will displace aging fossil fuel-based generation and the negative environmental impacts from fossil fuel energy generation.

According to Action 3 of the plan, the “New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will launch an accelerated renewable energy procurement process for both offshore and onshore renewable energy projects, aiming to backfill any contracted projects which are terminated.” This project brings the state, one step closer to that goal.

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