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Leading the clean transition to America’s energy future
Offshore wind power is the next major source of clean energy in the United States. The U.S. has a vast offshore wind energy resource which can support tens of thousands of new jobs, strengthen coastal economies, and deliver vast amounts of clean, reliable energy to American communities. America’s shores possess a power potential of more than 2,000 gigawatts (GW), nearly double the nation’s current electricity use. Join the American Clean Power Association and #SupportOffShoreWind.
U.S. Offshore Wind Poised for Exponential Growth
AWEA’s U.S. Offshore Wind Power Economic Impact Assessment shows how the industry’s $57 billion investment in the U.S. economy will deliver up to $25 billion per year in new economic activity and support up to 83,000 well-paying U.S. jobs by 2030.
American Voters Strongly Favor Offshore Wind Energy
More than 80 percent of the nation’s voters, regardless of political party and demographic, favor adding more offshore wind to America’s energy portfolio and a majority of voters say wind energy will be more important to the economy in 10 years than oil and natural gas.
Explore how our offshore wind energy resources contribute to U.S. economic growth, job creation, and clean, reliable energy for Americans throughout the country.
U.S. Offshore Wind: Accelerating Small Business and Manufacturing Growth
Thanks to investment opportunities provided by U.S. offshore wind, Strum Contracting Co. in Maryland was able to increase the company’s physical space and expand its civil construction fabrication and manufacturing small business. Chief Operating Officer Teaera Strum explains her support for offshore wind.
U.S. Offshore Wind: Spurring New Manufacturing Jobs and Supply Chain Opportunities
TradePoint Atlantic Managing Director Kerry Doyle says that the most promising opportunity to bring manufacturing back to the Baltimore, Maryland region is the offshore wind industry. Hear why he supports offshore wind.
U.S. Offshore Wind: Driving Small Business Growth
Transporting personnel and supplies for offshore wind development is driving small business growth for maritime companies such as Cape Henry’s Launch Service in Virginia. Owner Gary Bradford explains the pride his company takes in being part of the wind industry.
Creating A New Supply Chain and Workforce through Offshore Wind
Colonna’s Shipyard has been in business for over 145 years. Vance Hull, Director of Business Development, explains why offshore wind presents an opportunity to develop a new supply chain and workforce in coastal Virginia.
Offshore wind has strong, bipartisan support from elected officials at the national, state, and local levels as well as from business and industry leaders.
Offshore wind is an important component of our administration’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide affordable energy options and we look forward to continuing to develop the Commonwealth’s emerging offshore wind industry in a sustainable manner that benefits all residents.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R)
The demand for offshore wind energy has never been greater. Plummeting costs, technological advances, skyrocketing demand and great economic potential have all combined to make offshore wind a highly promising avenue for adding to a diversified national energy portfolio. The U.S. Outer Continental Shelf provides a world-class wind resource on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Acting Director Walter Cruickshank
There is no other renewable energy resource that provides us with either the electric-generation or economic-growth potential of offshore wind. When we reach our goal of 7,500 megawatts, New Jersey’s offshore wind infrastructure will generate electricity to power more than 3.2 million homes and meet fifty percent of our state’s electric power need. Our offshore wind industry will generate billions of dollars in investments in New Jersey’s future, that will, in turn, create thousands of jobs.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D)
The offshore wind energy industry is at the beginning of what many predict will be a tremendous expansion. This growth will create jobs across the United States as some $70 billion in new capital expenditures enter the market over the next decade.
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Erik Milito
Fully developing the offshore wind industry’s potential will play a critical role in building out America’s future energy landscape. [Offshore wind is] at the cutting edge of tomorrow’s energy technology and will provide the type of high quality, family-supporting jobs needed for a healthy national economy.
Utility Workers Union of America Former President Mike Langford
Report: Offshore wind industry could support more than 5,000 Hampton Roads jobs
The offshore wind industry could eventually support thousands of Hampton Roads jobs and pump $740 million into the Virginia economy, according to a new economic impact study. The study estimates that 5,200 jobs, the majority of which would be based in Hampton Roads, could be supported for each gigawatt of electricity the region installs and services annually, according to study author and Richmond consulting firm Mangum Economics.
This investment makes sense. It turns Virginia in the right direction. There’s more. Far more, potentially. Hampton Roads could easily become the staging location — functionally, a supply hub — for future wind projects up and down the U.S. East Coast.
We have had four years fishing the Block Island Wind Farm now. Commercial gill nets are set up in the wind farm area, private boats, charter and large party boats as well as commercial trawlers and rod & reel fishermen fish there. They fish there because the fishing is good.
So it is about time we start to advocate for the responsible development of offshore wind farms as they have proven to be good for habitat, fish and fishers in Rhode Island and Europe. We need to insist on research and monitoring plans developed with angler input for every wind farm so we rely on science and fact based studies to measure the positive and negative impacts to habitat and fish before, during and after construction.