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created. Down the coast in Virginia,

Dominion Energy was negotiating with local unions, including electri- cal trades, for handling interconnec- tions on the ? rst phase of the offshore project, some 880 MW. One caution, however, came from OMSA, voicing concern that the earlier-mentioned hold on offshore oil and gas leasing might reduce the workforce to man vessels in the offshore service roles.

The horizon is bright, but not free of clouds. Some observers have cau- tioned that the “local content” efforts that have driven the states to invest will need to morph over time into more regional supply chains. In the race to develop hubs, there will in- variably be big winners, but also los- ers, where large capital investments will fail to pay off. New strains of

NIMBY-ism and opposition tied to new types of business arrangements are also adding some color. While turbines from the South Fork Wind

Farm—a 132 MW project, one of several to be developed by Ørsted and regional utility Eversource—will not be visible offshore, a row has erupted in the wealthy Hamptons enclave of

Wainscott, on Long Island’s East End, over the underground routing of on- shore electrical cables. To the north, in Connecticut, a dispute emerged in early 2020 between the City of New

London and state authorities relat- ing to the business arrangements, and property tax payments on the State

Pier. Nearby, in New Bedford, Mass. (with a heavy-lift cargo terminal set to become a staging area for wind projects), local stakeholders are still 156,033 striving for complementarity with the ? shing industry.

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