Daily News | NJ’s offshore wind to bring $150 billion in private investment and power thousands of jobs
Becker said the state is creating a new supply chain through component manufacturing.on a monopile fabrication facility at the Port of Paulsboro in Gloucester County, and the largest offshore wind manufacturing facility in the U.S. There, EEW, using union workers, will build hundreds of needed 400-foot long, 2,500-ton monopiles — steel towers that anchor turbines to the ocean floor.
McCurry said he expects about 500 jobs to eventually be created just at the Port of Paulsboro to build the monopiles. That doesn’t include jobs expected at the wind port, the Port of Newark / Elizabeth, and Ørsted’s Atlantic City operations and maintenance facility and project office, and operations in Newark. Ørsted has set aside $22 million in a trust to invest in minority- and women-owned firms looking to break into the offshore wind field.
“I mean this is massive and we have many different needs,” Picherit said, noting that scientific research is critical to “core systems” and electrical transmission.marine fisheries managers, engineers, geophysics, accountants, and other professionals for its U.S. operations, though not necessarily for just New Jersey.
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