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Ed, to start can you give us a brief on your career? The Ørsted name is well known to this audi-

EL: I’ve been with Ørsted since 2019, originally as the ence, but can you give by the numbers look at

Northeast Marine Affairs Manager and now head of ma- the offshore wind and marine operations in the rine affairs. Our fundamental mission in marine affairs U.S. market today?

is focused on navigation safety. We facilitate navigation EL: Ørsted has one operational project, the Block Island safety, we preserve navigation safety, we enhance navi- Wind Farm, a small wind farm with ? ve towers. (While it’s gation safety for all of our stakeholders, including those small), it does supply electricity to the entire Block Island external to Ørsted, current waterway users, as well those and allow Block Island to completely shut down its diesel that are internal to Ørsted, our own vessels, our own peo- generator. We have another project that’s just beginning ple. To do that, I have a staff of nine spread throughout construction, the South Fork Wind Farm, a 12 tower wind the East Coast whose day-to-day functions is to engage farm that will be off the coast of Rhode Island. And then with all stakeholders to make sure we understand and ad- we have about a half a dozen other projects in the North- dress concerns. east and in the mid-Atlantic that together represent about

For the previous 44 years (before 2019), since I was 18, I ? ve gigawatts of electricity. served a full career with the U.S. Coast Guard. I was a ship driver, but I spent my last 10 years or so involved with the

The availability of vessels to install, build and offshore wind industry.

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