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Matthew Daly
Washington (AP) —The White House launches formal partnership with 11 East Coast Governor to boost the growing offshore wind industry To do. President Joe Biden's Climate Change Plan.
At the White House meeting on Thursday, Biden administration officials meet with governors and worker leaders to expand key elements of the offshore industry, including manufacturing facilities, ports, and labor training and development. I will announce the promise.
The partnership consists of the governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
The White House, in collaboration with the state and private sector, "provides clean and cheap energy to Americans, creates high-income jobs, and creates new American jobs, including the construction of wind power. We will invest billions of dollars in the energy supply chain. " Turbines, shipbuilding and services.
Biden has set a goal of introducing 30GW of offshore wind power by 2030. This is enough to power 10 million households, support 77,000 jobs and spur private investment in $ 12 billion in offshore wind annually. Offshore wind is an important element of the Democratic President's plan to make the country's power grid carbon-free by 2035.
The Biden administration has approved two large-scale wind power projects: Vineyard Wind Power in Massachusetts. South Fork Wind off Newyork and Rhode Island. Both are under construction by union labor. The Home Office has begun reviewing another 10 offshore projects that, if approved, will produce 22 gigawatts of clean energy.
Ørsted, a Danish wind farm, signed a collective bargaining agreement with a national union representing 3 million people in the construction industry last month to build a U.S. offshore wind farm with U.S. labor. did. Orsted currently has six offshore projects in five states.
The national agreement signed with the North American Building Trade Union is intended for contractors working on these and future projects, and there is no end date for the Project Trade Union. It sets the conditions for union workers to build offshore wind farms with the goal of securing a diverse workforce. This includes training preparations to enable you to build complex infrastructure that can cost billions of dollars.
"We recognize that the state is a huge player here," said David Hayes, Climate Advisor at the White House. The formal partnership will allow the Biden administration to "work with the governor on future policies and help ensure that there is an American-made supply chain for this brand new industry," Hayes said in an interview Wednesday. Stated.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said in a statement that he and other Governor of the East Coast said, "Not only geography, but clean and affordable energy, economic opportunities, and all community members. A future protected from the deteriorating effects of climate change. ”
New Jersey's“ Critical Supply Chain Hubs Develop Rapidly as We Strive to Achieve (Green Energy) Reduction Targets. We are in a unique position to foster the domestic clean energy industry, "said the Governor of the Democratic Party.
Federal cooperation begins with the Biden administration's announcement of plans to hold up to seven offshore wind auctions by 2025. New York part-time job. Other sales are expected off the coast of Maine, the Central Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and California and Oregon.
