Full Title: Offshore Wind Energy Workforce Development Best Practices Resource
Author(s): Caitlyn Clark, Brinn McDowell, Bailey Pons, and Jeremy Stefek
Publisher(s): U.S. Department of Energy and NREL
Publication Date: September 9, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
The offshore wind energy industry is set to grow significantly in the next decade, increasing the demand of workers needed to reach deployment goals. The Biden administration’s goal is for the United States to reach 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030[1], and clean energy workforce incentives, like those in the Inflation Reduction Act, have been put into law. Between these two major efforts, the pressure to develop a sustainable domestic labor force to support the U.S. offshore wind energy industry has never been greater.
The Third Annual Offshore Wind Workforce Summit was hosted in Maryland on March 28, 2023, by the Business Network for Offshore Wind (BNOW) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and sponsored by Total Energies. Approximately 250 participants were separated into breakout sessions across 27 tables to explore best practices surrounding key challenges facing the development of an available and properly trained offshore wind energy workforce.