BAYONNE, WEEHAKWEN AND BEYOND — According to the Gothamist and a clean energy website, over the next three years, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is planning to bring wind energy to the New York City metropolitan area, including Bayonne, where construction has reportedly already begun.
Wind turbines may find their way to Weehawken in the future as well.
The sites say that a plan by the Port Authority “calls for five wind turbines, each over 280 feet tall, to be put on the west side of New York Harbor, and another across the river in Bayonne, NJ” and they quoted a representative from the Port Authority saying that “Anybody who’s ever stood out at the dock in Weehawken waiting for a ferry just knows it’s a very windy area. Apparently, it’s a pretty good place to put windmills.”
Reportedly, the five planned turbines could produce up to 7.5 megawatts of power (or enough to power 2,000 homes) with the right windy conditions.