On May 14, Ocean Township appointed Southern Ocean Waretown Solar Farm LLC as a conditional redeveloper of the former Southern Ocean Landfill on Wells Mills Road. The redeveloper has proposed to convert the landfill to a solar power facility.

The company is an affiliate of CEP Renewables LLC, a solar and renewable energy company that has developed and interconnected over 100 megawatts of grid-scale solar power generation throughout New Jersey.