To secure his state’s foothold in the growing offshore wind industry, Gov. Ned Lamont headed to the modern glass residence of Danish Ambassador Lone Dencker Wisborg for a welcoming reception on Wednesday in Washington D.C.
It was the precursor to a Thursday summit, where Lamont could meet face-to-face with officials from Danish energy giant Orsted.
The company has plans for a massive offshore wind farm called Revolution Wind off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. It will power Connecticut with 300 megawatts of renewable energy and create construction jobs in the port of New London.
Like many other coastal states, Lamont wants to increase Connecticut’s procurement of offshore wind. He has submitted a bill to set a goal for the state to get up to 1,000 megawatts of energy from offshore wind suppliers in the future.
He was also the only governor to attend the National Governor’s Association Global Energy Solutions Summit, where Thomas Brostrom, Orsted’s North American president and CEO of US Offshore Wind, presented on Thursday.
Lamont said Thursday the Revolution Wind project is Connecticut’s best option to serve its energy needs in the future. He noted the possible closing of the Millstone nuclear plant as more reason to explore clean-energy alternatives.
“We have to think about world 10-to-12 years out, where nuclear is not a part of it,” he said. “How do we backfill? Wind, solar and energy efficiency is what we’ve been talking about.”
But while Lamont pushes to expand the state’s offshore wind portfolio, he is also facing pressure to apply more regulation to the Revolution Wind project to protect...
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