EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee voted last week to spend $616,625 to pave and restore West Jersey Avenue and other roads where work was done to prepare for an offshore wind project that never materialized.

New Jersey utility regulators earlier this month canceled their preliminary approval of the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm, after federal maneuvering all but killed the project.

The company called the action "a pause," not necessarily the end of the project.

Atlantic Shores had proposed to install 197 wind turbines about 10 miles off the coast between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light, which would have generated enough electricity to power 1 million homes.

President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order Jan. 20 halting all new approvals for offshore wind projects

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