✅ Wind turbines can cause serious problems with radar, says GAO report ✅ President Trump has halted all wind projects off the Jersey shoreline ✅ One project is moving forward off the New Jersey and New York coastlines The contention by Republican Congressmen Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew that wind turbines off the coast of New Jersey would interfere with military radar was proven correct in a newly issued report by the Government Accountability Office. The report issued Monday by the non-partisan organization states that “wind turbines can reduce the performance of radar systems used for defense and maritime navigation and safety in several ways. These include reducing detection sensitivity, obscuring potential targets, and generating false targets" Smith said proponents of wind energy have downplayed an earlier report by the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 that first raised the concern.
"In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of all of this is the obfuscation, the degrading of radar for vessel or boats, big ships, little ships, helicopters, airplanes, jets, coming into LaGuardia, especially into Newark International," Smith told Eric Scott on the New Jersey 101.5 Morning Show. "We're going to have a reduction of performance of radar, and they have affirmed that, making it more dangerous, both to be on the water or in the air.
" It also puts pilots who train off the coast at risk, according to Smith. The GAO report noted that "some mitigation strategies .
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