Team Leading State’s First Offshore Wind Farms
Plans Major New Investments in Local Jobs, Ports, Shipbuilding and
Workforce Training for New Project: Revolution Wind 2
Rhode Island’s offshore wind leaders Ørsted and Eversource today
announced they have submitted a joint proposal in response to the
state’s offshore wind solicitation. Delivering clean, reliable
renewable power for more than 500,000 Rhode Island homes, the
proposed 884-megawatt Revolution Wind 2 represents more than $2
billion in direct economic benefits to Rhode Island’s blue and
green economies, including the creation of hundreds of local jobs
and unprecedented investments in port improvements and
shipbuilding.
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Ørsted and Eversource are leading the buildout of a homegrown
American offshore wind industry, and Revolution Wind 2 will further
advance the state’s leadership position in this growing green jobs
sector. If selected, Revolution Wind 2 will create hundreds of
jobs; deliver crucial port investments that expand Rhode Island’s
role in the offshore wind industry; advance environmental justice;
and create inclusive training and career opportunities for
historically marginalized Rhode Islanders.
Together with Ørsted and Eversource’s Revolution Wind – the
state’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm – Revolution Wind 2
would help advance the state’s 100-percent clean energy by 2033
climate goal. The carbon emissions achieved by Revolution Wind 2
would be the equivalent of taking more than 265,000 cars off New
England roads.
“From the ‘starting five’ at America’s first offshore wind farm
to the major work already underway for Revolution Wind, we’re proud
to be Rhode Island’s trusted offshore wind partner,” said David
Hardy, Group EVP and CEO Americas at Ørsted. “We’re ready to
deliver even more good-paying jobs and affordable clean energy to
the Ocean State, and we’re confident that our new proposal will
advance Rhode Island’s climate goals while delivering on the
promise of a sustainable economic engine rooted in thriving port
facilities and powered by local union labor.”
“We’re answering Rhode Island’s call for more offshore wind
energy with a proposal that builds upon the groundwork we’ve laid
in the Ocean State with our significant investments in port
infrastructure, workforce training and the local supply chain,”
said Joe Nolan, Chairman, President and CEO of Eversource
Energy. “Our latest proposal harnesses the unmatched
combination of our onshore, regional transmission expertise
together with Ørsted’s considerable offshore capabilities. We
applaud state leaders for their commitment to combatting climate
change and delivering a clean-energy future for Rhode
Islanders.”
If selected, Revolution Wind 2 will deliver unprecedented
economic and environmental investments in Rhode Island,
including:
- Ports:
- Significant investments in the state’s existing ports,
including $35 million to realize Quonset Development Corporation’s
vision for a Regional Offshore Wind Logistics and Operations Hub
at Quonset Point.
- New, local union jobs to support the expanded construction
of advanced foundation components at ProvPort.
- Shipbuilding:
- Building on the state’s historic shipbuilding capabilities,
Revolution Wind 2 will enable the construction of two new crew
transfer vessels in Rhode Island to serve Ørsted’s U.S.
portfolio, on top of the five already being built by Blount Boats
and Senesco Marine as part of our Revolution Wind investments.
We’re also planning other shipbuilding investments in Rhode Island
to support the industry.
- Ørsted Offshore Engineering Hub Center of Excellence:
- Ørsted will open a new U.S. Engineering Hub in Rhode Island,
creating roughly 75 new local engineering jobs in a
state-of-the-art facility that will serve as an Ørsted engineering
center of excellence in the U.S.
Revolution Wind 2 will also make tens of millions of dollars of
direct investments to support Rhode Island’s supply chain and
supplier diversity, workforce training, education and research,
environmental justice and biodiversity, putting Rhode Islanders
front and center.
Ørsted and Eversource are developing the 704MW Revolution Wind
project and are expected to start construction on the project later
this year. Revolution Wind will deliver 400 megawatts of clean,
affordable offshore wind power to nearly 200,000 Rhode Island
homes. The project is expected to be operational in 2025.
Under Governor McKee’s leadership, Rhode Island is building on
its leadership role as home to America’s first offshore wind farm,
the Block Island Wind Farm, as well as the state with the most
ambitious clean energy target in the nation. Already, Rhode Island
has become a leader in developing a homegrown offshore wind supply
chain, including a thriving industry hub of nearly 30 companies at
Providence CIC, and the state has begun training the future
offshore wind workforce. In July 2022, Governor McKee announced
Rhode Island’s second competitive offshore wind solicitation. This
second solicitation marks additional momentum toward achieving
Rhode Island’s 100-percent renewable by 2033 goal and its Act on
Climate Act emissions reduction target.
The joint venture between Ørsted, the leading U.S. offshore wind
energy partner, and Eversource, New England’s largest energy
provider and experts in regional energy transmission, was
established in 2016 and together the two companies have invested in
building the American offshore wind supply chain and next
generation of the nation’s energy workforce. Through its
industry-leading National Offshore Wind Agreement, the developers
were the first in the U.S. to commit that its offshore construction
would be completed by an American union workforce, emphasizing the
developers’ commitment to good-paying jobs, workforce training and
safety.
As part of Revolution Wind, Ørsted and Eversource have
already:
- Established a regional offshore wind foundation component
manufacturing facility at ProvPort, where local union workers are
today building advanced foundation components for the developers’
South Fork Wind project
- Partnered with two local shipyards – Blount Boats, in Warren,
and Senesco Marine, in Quonset Point – to build five new
crew-transfer vessels to support their Northeast projects.
Construction is underway.
- Invested $1 million to establish a training partnership with
the Community College of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Department
of Labor and Training, Rhode Island Commerce, the Rhode Island
Building and Construction Trades Council and Building Futures. The
partnership will establish the state’s first Global Wind
Organization (GWO) training certificate program, at CCRI.
- Signed first-ever U.S. offshore wind helicopter agreement for
new crew helicopters, including a $1.8 million investment in
Quonset State Airport where the helicopters will be based
- Awarded a contract to Boskalis for the foundation and offshore
substations transportation and installation work for Revolution
Wind and South Fork Wind , as well as scour protection installation
contracts for its Revolution Wind project. The contracts supported
the opening of a new Boskalis office located in Providence CIC
- Collaborated with marine services provider Sea Services North
America, and its partner fishermen in Rhode Island, to support safe
navigation in and around the companies’ Northeast offshore wind
farms
About Ørsted
A global clean energy leader, Ørsted develops, constructs, and
operates offshore and land-based wind farms, solar farms, energy
storage facilities, and bioenergy plants. Ørsted is the first
energy company in the world with a science-based net-zero emissions
target as validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
In the United States, the company has approximately 650
employees and a growing portfolio of clean energy assets and
partnerships that includes offshore wind energy, land-based wind
energy, solar, storage technologies and e-fuels. A leader across
the renewable energy sector in the United States, Ørsted holds the
top position in offshore wind energy with approximately 5 gigawatts
in development and operates America’s first offshore wind farm,
located off the coast of Block Island. Ørsted has a total U.S.
land-based capacity of 5 gigawatts across wind, solar, storage
technologies and e-fuels. To learn more about the Ørsted U.S.
business, visit us.orsted.com or follow the company on Facebook,
Instagram, and Twitter (@ØrstedUS).
About Eversource
Eversource (NYSE: ES), celebrated as a national leader for its
corporate citizenship, is the #1 energy company in Newsweek’s list
of America’s Most Responsible Companies for 2023 and recognized as
one of America’s Most JUST Companies. Eversource transmits and
delivers electricity and natural gas and supplies water to
approximately 4.4 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. The #1 energy efficiency provider in the nation,
Eversource harnesses the commitment of approximately 9,500
employees across three states to build a single, united company
around the mission of safely delivering reliable energy and water
with superior customer service. The company is empowering a clean
energy future in the Northeast, with nationally recognized energy
efficiency solutions and successful programs to integrate new clean
energy resources like solar, offshore wind, electric vehicles and
battery storage, into the electric system. For more information,
please visit eversource.com, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, and LinkedIn. For more information on our water
services, visit aquarionwater.com.
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