FORT
WORTH:
New
Jersey
regulators
have
issued
environmental
permits
that
will
allow
developer
Fishermen's
Energy
to
build
the
first
US
offshore
wind
demonstration
project,
in
state
waters
facing
Atlantic
City.
"This
is
huge.
We
are
very,
very
close
to
starting
the
project,"
Fishermen's
Energy
communications
director
Rhonda
Jackson
tells
Recharge.
The
developer,
a
consortium
of
principals
of
several
East
Coast
fishing
companies,
envisages
placing
six
turbines
in
shallow
Atlantic
Ocean
waters
about
4.5km
from
shore.
The
turbines
will
have
a
combined
maximum
generation
capacity
of
25MW,
enough
for
about
10,000
homes.
The…
