The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Strategic Plan for Offshore Wind, mentioned in the Oct. 28 SandPaper, did not address the one problem that is likely to have the greatest impact on Long Beach Island, namely the visual impact from shore of the new, larger wind turbines to be used.

The developer will be using newer 12 megawatt (MW) General Electric Haliade-X turbines, which are extremely large. The top of the turbine tower will be 500 feet above sea level.