Offshore Wind Jobs and Economic Development Impacts in the United States: Four Regional Scenarios

Technical Report · Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1171787· OSTI ID:1171787

Tegen, S. ^[1]; Keyser, D. ^[1]; Flores-Espino, F. ^[1]; Miles, J. ^[2]; Zammit, D. ^[2]; Loomis, D. ^[3]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA (United States)
3. Great Lakes Wind Network, Cleveland, OH (United States)

This report uses the offshore wind Jobs and Economic Development Impacts (JEDI) model and provides four case studies of potential offshore deployment scenarios in different regions of the United States: the Southeast, the Great Lakes, the Gulf Coast, and the Mid-Atlantic. Researchers worked with developers and industry representatives in each region to create potential offshore wind deployment and supply chain growth scenarios, specific to their locations. These scenarios were used as inputs into the offshore JEDI model to estimate jobs and other gross economic impacts in each region.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1171787
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-5000-61315
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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