The first U.S. offshore wind farm could be a lifeline for struggling New England cities
Workers participate in a sea survival training course at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, Mass.But there’s a catch: hardly any U.S. workers have experience building and operating offshore turbines. Community organizations, unions and colleges are now filling that gap, launching training programs in a broad effort to create a new American offshore wind workforce.
Workers preparing to erect new offshore wind farms along the U.S. East Coast in the coming years are taught how to do their jobs at sea and trained in emergency survival techniques., may also offer an ideal training ground for U.S. workers. Orsted, a Danish offshore-wind giant, is bringing more than a dozen American workers to train at its European sites for months at a time.
Langlais wants offshore–wind manufacturers like GE, which is supplying turbines to the Vineyard Wind project and makes many of its components in France, to produce turbines and similar gear domestically—a goal offshore-wind developers say they support. Orsted, for instance, has tapped Local 37 iron-workers to help erect a huge steel structure at the port in Providence, R.I., to be used to manufacture bases for the company’s offshore turbines.
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