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The state's loss of a major offshore wind project with Orsted doesn't appear to be slowing down.

Other development ideas.

Rutgers University today hosted an event with scientists from the school and other universities across the state to share budding ideas, including, get this creating floating wind turbines and farms all as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

Senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan reports.

Rutgers researchers want to develop floating offshore wind turbines like high wind, the world's first floating wind energy farm.

The structures ride big waves 18 miles off Scotland's coast.

At an offshore wind symposium today.

Rutgers revealed it'll explore building a new warehouse sized lab facility somewhere down the Jersey Shore to design and test floating wind turbines, each one almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

So this is technology that's required for facilities that will be deployed in water too deep to have a more traditional monopole or jacket style foundation.

And so these are targeted in areas.

Well offshore of New Jersey where the shelf break drops off.

It's an evolving technology.

The tall monopoles are connected underwater to heavily weighted floating platforms.

Those get tied to the seabed with steel cables.

European developer Equinor notes 80% of ocean wind energy potentials located farther offshore, putting them potentially out of sight and away from clamming fisheries.

These deeper deployments off New Jersey would be further offshore beyond view.

Shared issues that might be faced along the coast.

So that is one one benefit from that community's perspective.

When Rutgers and the state announced that we're going to have a testing facility advocating the advance of wind energy programs, that's tremendous.

Senator Bob Smith heads the Environment and Energy Committee.

He says Jersey has fallen behind other states in the rush to develop offshore wind energy, especially after the Danish firm Orsted canceled two fixed offshore wind projects here, citing high costs and supply chain problems.

Offshore wind energy opponents in New Jersey cheered.

Meanwhile, wind farms off Massachusetts and New York coastlines fired up this month.

Shame on us.

Shame on Orsted.

Massachusetts is a leader.

New York state is a leader.

And we want to be leaders too.

And as a matter of fact, we put hundreds of millions of dollars into a wind port in the southern part of the state.

Offshore wind is an incredible catalyst for economic growth.

There's job creations and tens of thousands of families sustaining jobs, business investment, port development.

This is we're building a supply chain, an industry here.

Offshore wind is also a big component of Governor Murphy's goal, 100% clean energy by 2035.

But the companion clean energy legislation still bogged down by special interests.

Smith says getting that passed remains his top priority in this new legislative session.

He sees global warming as an accelerating crisis.

If we don't get our wind energy act together, we're not going to be here.

All right.

The all the news that you're hearing that we had the hottest year in 125,000 years, it's all true.

The Rutgers concept for a floating wind turbine test lab, plus a smaller companion facility at its New Brunswick campus are still in the idea stage funded by $1,000,000 chancellors grant.

But for deep ocean floating wind farms already operate around the world and the U.S. Department of Energy's eager to develop them off American coastlines.

I'm Brenda Flanagan, NJ.

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