Offshore Wind Wire

MORNING ROUNDUP: Fishermen’s Chooses AECOM To Manage Atlantic City Project

Fishermen’s Energy has awarded a contract to engineering company AECOM to help develop a 25 megawatt offshore wind farm near Atlantic City, Forbes reported yesterday. According to the report, AECOM has begun pre-construction work on the pilot project and will eventually oversee procurement, construction and commissioning. Atlantic Wind Connection Pitches Project To New Jersey Communities Atlantic Wind Connection [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Deepwater Submits Bid To Sell Offshore Wind Electricity To Long Island

Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind has submitted a bid to sell up to 600 megawatts of offshore wind electricity to the Long Island (NY) Power Authority for a price in the “low teens” per kilowatt hour, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday. The electricity would come from a planned 1,000 megawatt wind farm that the developer [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Atlantic City Offshore Wind Project Receives Key Permits

New Jersey regulators approved key permits for a proposed 25 megawatt offshore wind farm being developed by Fishermen’s Energy in state waters near Atlantic City, the Star-Ledger reported Wednesday. Construction on the project could begin next year, according to the report. “The development of offshore wind projects off New Jersey’s coast is a priority for the [...]

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First US Offshore Wind Could be Located Off Atlantic City by 2011

By Peter Brennan Atlantic City, NJ, a city better known for its boardwalks and casinos, may have a new tourist attraction next year: six wind turbines less than three miles offshore. Fisherman’s Energy, a New Jersey-based offshore wind developer, has begun the permitting process, and hopes to begin construction in the summer of 2011. If the project [...]

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