U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo Announces Efforts to Advance Offshore Wind Power Generation
WASHINGTON --
In a roundtable meeting convened by the White House today, U.S. Secretary of
Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced two new initiatives that will advance the
Biden-Harris Administration’s clean energy goals by harnessing the economic
potential of offshore wind power generation to combat the climate crisis and
create more clean energy jobs.
“These actions illustrate the Department’s commitment to
innovative partnerships to advance the best science and data that will ensure
the development of offshore wind is transparent and inclusive of all
stakeholders,” said Secretary Raimondo. “We look forward to working across the
public and private sectors to invest in clean energy solutions, like offshore
wind, that will contribute to our whole-of-government approach to combat the
climate emergency and create high-paying, high-skilled American jobs.”
The Commerce Department, along with the Departments of Interior
and Energy, are announcing a shared goal to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of
offshore wind in the United States by 2030, while protecting biodiversity and
promoting ocean co-use. Meeting this target will trigger more than $12 billion
per year in capital investment in projects on both U.S. coasts, create tens of
thousands of good-paying, union jobs, with more than 44,000 workers employed in
offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported
by offshore wind activity. It will also generate enough power to meet the
demand of more than 10 million American homes for a year and avoid 78 million
metric tons of CO2 emissions.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
entered a memorandum of agreement
with Ørsted Wind Power North America LLC, an offshore wind development company
to share physical and biological data in Ørsted-leased waters subject to U.S.
jurisdiction. NOAA anticipates that Ørsted’s data will fill gaps in ocean
mapping and observing to help NOAA better understand weather, climate and ocean
processes and build resilient coastal communities and economies. As part of the
agreement, NOAA will also share its publicly available data with Ørsted.
Together, this information sharing will be used to ensure that offshore
renewable energy technologies and infrastructure are developed, deployed, and
maintained effectively. The Memorandum is the first of its kind between an
offshore wind developer and NOAA – and paves the way for similar data-sharing
agreements with other offshore wind developers.
NOAA’s Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power
Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, is
announcing over $1 million in research funding
to improve understanding of offshore renewable energy interactions with fishing
and coastal communities in order to optimize ocean co-use. With a focus on
advancing community and economic resilience, the funding opportunity aims to
catalyze proactive socio-economic and technology research for offshore
renewable energy planning in the Northeast, for the benefit of a variety of
stakeholders.
Learn more about the announcements and offshore wind:
- Memorandum of Agreement between NOAA and Ørsted Wind Power North
America LLC
- Research funding opportunity to improve understanding of Northeast
renewable energy interactions
- NOAA’s regulatory and scientific role in offshore wind development
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