New Jersey will move closer to becoming the nation's first offshore wind power producer if a planned 24-MW pilot project off the coast of Atlantic City obtains its last permit and approval under a state incentive program. The firm expects both as early as this fall.
Fishermen's Energy, a consortium of mostly East Coast fishing companies, has received all the necessary state permits to build a demonstration-scale, six-turbine offshore wind farm about 2.8-miles from Atlantic City, says Rhonda Jackson, Fishermen's Energy outreach director. The firm is waiting for a a water permit from the Army Corps of Engineers before it can move to the next phase, however. The firm expects to receive the permit "by late summer — the latest," Jackson says.