Atlantic City Considers Bids for Wind Turbines
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — At least two groups want to build wind turbines off the Atlantic City coast to provide an alternative source of energy and become the first offshore wind farm in America.
Bluewater Wind wants to erect 116 wind turbines about 15 miles off the Atlantic City coast, and approached the Atlantic County Board of Freeholders last month to pitch their project.
Also in the running is a group headed by commercial fishermen calling itself Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey, which would have 74 turbines. The mayor of Atlantic City, Scott Evans, endorsed the concept yesterday.
The president of Fishermen’s Energy, Daniel Cohen, and principal shareholder of Atlantic Capes Fisheries, a top scallop harvester, said his group’s project would be very similar to the five land-based turbines that the Atlantic County Utilities Authority operates in Atlantic City, “except that it will be three miles offshore in the ocean.”
