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GLASSBORO - The Sweeney Center for Public Policy is hosting its third energy conference, Moving Forward on Offshore Wind: New Challenges, New Competition, 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 at Rowan University's Business Hall, Conference Room 104, 201 Mullica Hill Road. Registration and breakfast opens at 8 a.m. The free conference is followed by a networking lunch.
Board of Public Utilities President Christine Guhl-Sadovy and Economic Development Authority CEO Tim Sullivan are featured speakers.
The conference comes in the wake of two major events last month: the BPU's award of contracts to Leading Light Wind and Attentive Energy to generate 3.7 gigawatts of offshore wind with turbines using monopiles and towers manufactured in New Jersey, and the operational launch of the nation's first commercial offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind, off the coast of Massachusetts.
Orsted's decision to pull out of its Ocean Wind projects in New Jersey was a serious setback and followed the cancellation of three New England projects, Sweeney Center Director Mark Magyar said in a release. However, the latest round of BPU awards not only reinvigorated New Jersey's offshore wind initiative, but also guaranteed that those turbines will be built on monopiles and towers manufactured in New Jersey.
In addition to Guhl-Sadovy and Sullivan, speakers at the conference will include:
" Wes Jacobs, Project Director, Leading Light Wind
" Damian Bednar, Managing Director, Attentive Energy
" Terence Kelly, Head of External Affairs, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind
" Dan Kent, Labor Relations Manager, Vineyard Offshore
" Anne Reynolds. Vice President of Offshore Wind, American Clean Energy Association
" Dan Fatton, Director, Offshore Wind Sector, New Jersey Economic Development Authority
Registration for both in-person and virtual attendance is free. To register, see https://rowan.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cAWS04h2KmNspFk
For further information, contact Mark Magyar at [email protected].
