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