this meeting to order uh welcome
everybody for joining our September
about a meeting which quite possibly
might be our last meeting of the year I
think possibly we've been making a lot
of great progress
um so what I'd like to do I don't really
have any welcoming comments besides lots
of great work has been happening uh
behind the scenes and you'll hear some
of that today we do have Laura joining
us virtually so I need to we need to
vote on Virtual participation so I need
to motion that we accept Laura to be
able to participate electronically
okay all in favor
aye any opposed
okay Laura you are granted uh access
virtually so thank you I wonder if that
would ever go wrong and then someone has
to awkwardly be deleted
okay so uh next one the approval of the
previous minutes which I'm sure
everyone's studiously read
can I get a motion to accept the minutes
from the previous meeting
all in favor
any opposed
all right we accept the minutes from the
previous meeting
okay moving on to Mr gullickson any
updates from the governor's Opera when
coordination fee yeah I mean the update
was the meeting was postponed or or
canceled for this month
um but I will take this opportunity just
to briefly
um give everyone a quick update on where
uh we stand here at the port in regards
to continue progress at Portsmouth
Marine Terminal
um we are now over the 40 mark of
completion for the C Val or the Dominion
footprint of 72 acres
in preparation of the arrival of the
first monopolis come early October so
very excited um
well yeah yeah but um I I can just say
uh obviously a lot of hard work a lot of
collaboration going on between Dominion
uh the contractor skanska obviously our
team here at the Port
um and we are in full mode of getting
ready to receive those first monopiles
so we will receive six excuse me eight
uh monopiles here in early October so be
on the lookout
um as you know they're coming across the
Atlantic from Germany and so uh the
schedule is what the schedule is and
obviously cooperating with weather
windows and whatnot um but we we'll see
them here shortly and uh definitely uh
be on the lookout for probably some form
of a announcement or just sort of a
press release on the first arrival the
first vessel
um and yeah that's all I got do you have
any shareable updates about let's see
uh well at this point you know we have
an agreement uh for them to lease a
footprint at Portsmouth Virginia model
and construct the blade finishing
facility uh previously so
yeah right I think it's getting them off
of uh from origin you know
yes Eileen
I believe the image I saw this week
um and I I said six and I knew it was an
even number I want to say or across
um and they're too deep on the vessel
because each one uh you know say we'll
call them 200 feet long and so I think
you know they have two
I want to say it's eight could be six
but um so hopefully that's not a test
but it's either six or eight but I do
think it's eight I think there are four
wide on the vessel
yeah so you'll start seeing them every
month correct yeah so every month we'll
start to uh receive
d
and uh it'll be really exciting just to
kind of start seeing them build up their
uh idle stock and it seems from the
Dominion and I don't know if there's any
Dominion update if there's Dominion
representative but uh project obviously
tracking accordingly and there would be
the beginnings of the in-water
installation taking place once the
window opens up in 2024 after the
moratorium for the right well migration
so
um yeah here we go
it's happening
and we sort of playing some members
uh news summary that was prepared for
the ultra wind coordination team meeting
that was canceled
this month which there's a lot of
reading there I'm just follow all the
links but that was
possibly they're going to be the focus
of most of the discussion at that campus
level meeting if it had been delayed
and I guess Virginia had good news in
there compared to many other states many
other reports at least Dominion
continues to report the project is on
time and on budget
thank you for sharing the report it's
really good
okay yeah that was all public
information sources some sometimes we
prepare analysis that is Governor's
working papers and head share serves
that and the federal funding opportunity
newsletter that was
public sourcing information
and frankly we will be flooding here
with a lot of that and there's a lot
more
you haven't shared all of it but we'll
start sharing more and more related to R
D related to
kind of off take pull into Workforce and
related to all of the topics to the
forwarding
for example
at some point
well thank you Chris for that update
um moving over now to the 2023 annual
report for about and then I I do recall
last time we talked this is now much
more streamlined report right after the
direction of the lead director so go
ahead um yeah well just to remind you on
that point
um there were there was guidance issues
um by our director part of the
governor's office to chain the size of
category reports because
um and this one's not much more than
dollars last year
his power was not one of the
annual reports that went on for 100
pw200 pages in one case
um with with dependencies on top of that
so
this report is not much shorter if any
than last year's
um the guidance in general is
um to report in the annual reports that
have to be who won the governor's office
received by the government's office
Central General Assembly committee
members that are identified in the
legislation
document closely and
you can do the back and forth that that
takes sometimes for policy people
looking at it and others looking at it
and asking questions it's best to change
this but it's
so but to reiterate
they have said multiple times many
people in the administration
this body and body's like this
your advice is wanted and needed
um just not the annual report
um to the extent that some authorities
have been doing in the past so
the approach that we you are taking now
with these breakdowns some of the
research from those while it's probably
more voluminous Kathy than we've seen
him you know you've boiled it down to a
few pages
um but there's a lot more behind that I
know and same thing with uh what what
Howard has worked on and what I mean has
worked on
um that's what they would prefer that
way no they don't have to review it
um and deal with it in a fullness report
that being said
and is obviously caught in traffic but
he put down the sports brand so that we
could you would have a chance to include
it at this meeting
um and I'm expecting that that will take
if you agree but if you're having
reviewed it and at this meeting if you
don't see things that you think doesn't
mean a lot of discussion or change
then
you could authorize
um the department of energy to revise
the report for the discussion in
Direction at today's meeting
um and then reach your knives but again
we could submit it
um the deadline of October 15.
um and it's fair but it's almost last
year's
and really the meat of it or the six
recommendations
in the first couple of Ages
they are very similar to the
recommendations in last year's report
can tweet them a little bit because we
um we knew we had we had more
information from
R D
um SWOT analysis and recommendations
of course all of them can't sit on a
paragraph recommendation but can tried
to capture them just for that
um and today it'll be more that may be
done I don't know that we've done
Justice yeah typical Howard's report
um that's the recommendation for I don't
know that that's been changed a lot or
if it needs to be changed that's you
know of your consideration and then
after that the we put in the bare
minimum Mission and objectives and
background of the authority there's more
in the appendix
has been eliminated
um
it used to be two or three levels of
activities about activities have always
been what is unexpected and
unfortunately in addition to that
um
over the years and including last year
we've included industry updates that
value had nothing to do with
except you know suffering been good for
bad and enjoying the good like everyone
else so we've eliminated that
um and then the summaries of the
meetings
beliefs or the Dual Purpose
um
we can use those to provide links to
other documents so they're not part of
this thing would already expensive to do
by how level books that you
Administration and then the appendix
um is what it was last year there were
some letters of comment that were
attached
uh we had last year's reports and can I
think you said there was only one I
couldn't find any
last year
um
and so that that really is the overview
and
so I opened it to you now
were you thinking about this
happy with it is it the disaster and we
wish we had given it to you
parts of scratch come back for the month
yes I'll start I'll open it up for
discussion
um I've reviewed the document I thought
it was good I thought it was what we
wanted to do I mean the only thing I
know is probably a few
formatting type things but like that's
basically it I even thought in the
section about the men the meetings
figure there's probably some some of the
meeting summaries should likely be
shortened even more but that was
basically it I think overall the bones
of it and the meat of it I think media
can intent
um
I'm happy to accept that as is with and
we can talk about this later and I'll
plan on moving to have
about a staff or Virginia energy staff
be able to make revisions without
beating a about a boat but before we
talk about that is there any other
comments about the annual report and
thank you for pointing out the
formatting and editing and the style of
lens on vacation and she always done
that Force Ken and I really sparkle with
you to move one thing and a thousand or
something else so yeah I shouldn't
mention them yeah
I'll just expect those comments could
say that generalizations in this report
I think it's favorable in keeping actual
items to the white papers I think this
is that's what the administration wants
and I think that's either but everyone
is more effective
I think that uh that kind of foreign
opportunities Russia or random of
Virginia and other nearby locations so I
think it's hard for I will give an
update on Bob thinkers but I think maybe
if you just shift labor a little bit
more insurance
I think you know the title of my
presentation was athletes forward for
future on each offshore wind projects
under 19 Virginia
recognized by barriers and opportunities
for that you know maybe the two general
topic but it seems like you know large
data centers I'm like you know I'm
thinking we're going to be contacting
individuals and frankly I think that's
the role of the belters a lot of this
you know I feel like I'm sort of using a
second look
um but on behalf of that are the things
that are probably are pretty evident to
uh to develop those new cells so I think
maybe just a little more generalized and
I can work on some languages
more more active scope
they didn't just maybe it's more just
working with developers to understand
the constraints and those kind of things
to make sure that the state is open sort
of
there are able to go and actually enter
into Power purchase agreements where I
just make sure everything the state is
doing is setting up for this to happen
right we're going to several aspects
it's not just talking about papers both
right one of the things that based on
your comment I just thought about is
like right after the word I didn't find
what impossible I just had to identify
Pathos and barriers as possible power
off takers but that kind of
such as
developments such as
so maybe just generalize it because it
could be it could be eventually just
pointed out that becoming some other
communication that could be Health Care
you know to be understood that we were
meeting on the list and I think that I
think most likely one of the school tend
to be the government the dod and so
forth
but we can just generalize
and I think I understood you to say how
until
um also born
you know I'm just possible Palo
altogether as as your preservation did
yeah right yeah it's
expenditure barriers and oops
y little said it whatever you said
identify Pathways barriers to possible
power outages
with the clean energy commitments yeah
Laura has common questions yeah I
thought the report looked really good um
this is a really minor comment but on
recommendation number three at the top
of page two
at last eg it says impacts of hurricanes
marine life and Commercial Fishing
I would just say impacts of hurricanes
and impacts on marine life it just makes
it sounds like
and talking about the impacts of marine
life on wind as opposed to the opposite
that looks really good thank you
Howard were you asking for revision on
about activity Sport and recommendation
for or just about activity sport
um
but I'd like to maybe suggest well
before I do that does anybody else have
any other like burning so an observation
um you know looking at recommendation
number five
and I kind of look to staff
um
to understand
where we stand in regards to the smart
power mou and that is even uh something
at this point relevant to a
recommendation if there's not much meat
behind it
I don't think there's any harm in
leaving it it's
it's covered in other areas about you
know advancing the industry and the
supply chain
um if you're wanting to shorten it we're
we're still actively participating in
the mou but it's not as high profile as
it was in the administration that you
know created it and approved it
um so we're we're working we're still
working with those other states in the
region
on goals that we all share that
where that makes sense and we you know
we're not
like phrasing
what if there's
potential
um business investors or anything like
that so it's
where it makes sense to cooperate like
the idea the big
um North American wind conference that
is basically a big marketing effort and
opportunity for States including
Virginia to have a presence there so we
still
um
use the smart power
um
banner and work with Maryland and North
Carolina to help balance
for Virginia and the southern part of
the Mid-Atlantic
with what's happening in the Northeast
where there are similar
mou's and Partnerships
um between states that have invested you
know a great deal of money and often
been sentences that was the one of the
major reasons for smart power in the
first place well then I wonder if maybe
because I still think there's just I get
it that there's a three-party and we've
we've marketed together but I still
sometimes challenge to find what the
value is and so I almost wonder if
there's a way to
um add all sentence in there to further
Define benefits and values and support
of because I'm just putting that out
there I'm again this is just an
observation if we're going to have it in
here
um and there could be some opportunity I
mean there's some Synergy between North
Carolina we all know that um and we've
experienced that but it sounds like it's
two things yeah the house point
State's going to continue to actually
support and participate in and we should
yes let's probably dig in a little bit
more about how to best utilize the smart
power I mean it would be interesting to
go and I serve on both so the North
Carolina towers as well as this weekend
having combo meeting public
yeah I will say the empty Towers
is impressive I mean I had presented to
them this year down in Raleigh in a very
impressive uh Gathering of engaged
stakeholders within the state of North
Carolina
um so this did come up in our discussion
and it was revolving around now RDC and
my notes Here have L is the point guard
on that
um and then there's possibly a new
project to build off of the Virginia
supply chain and and using the spark
power region with nrel leaving
so I think in the white paper the white
paper
what one of the when you get to it what
are the recommendations of the white
paper is to leverage uh Virginia's
membership and now RDC and that would be
part of that by participating more in
this than some of the other
subcommittees that deliver later when we
go over that so I'm not sure if that's
covered more in the white paper and more
of a generalization and the
and where it gorgeous
I'd recommend we leave it as is but we
know that a 2020 now 20 through 2024 but
the annual report for 2024 will have a
whole different spin on what what that
looks like for smart power
make that decision there
I'm reading it right now it's it's as if
the smart power mou is the only vehicle
either to engage in the workforce
white paper I think is certainly more
appropriate to get into the details
before and what the recommendation on
the now RDC
part of the increased funding there is
some funding that Virginia already
committed
and
transfer to the now RDC that's unspent
um and there was a commitment to provide
more than we have already transferred to
the landlords
so one of
jobs for infant energy
will be now to go back and talk about
that
can we come up with
additional money or can we use the money
that's still in the kitty because as
members of now RDC we do have a
um
significant steering power but that so
we could
um direct that money to
a project that benefits Virginia like
that smart power
stage there's Advantage Delaware now
it's four states that are looking at
original Supply Chain study and
Workforce staff analysis based on the
national one that was done by nrel
was
a funding collection okay
you just generalize this a bit just
saying Cooperative Arrangements between
among the states
to advance in the future of offshore
Arrangements
just leave it open because it may be a
variety of different things
like the Workforce Development and all
of that
false comments
only to Eileen's point and that is that
I wonder when we talk about I think that
she's right I read through all five real
quickly and that is the only place that
Workforce has mentioned here she's
hidden I thought might have offended
kenshi but I did in recommendation
number two however we talk about all
stakeholders and stakeholders do include
Workforce so maybe that is where we're
going to narrow down what we say in five
we just simply
including Workforce all right so let me
ask this question because
um
that's where I want to go yeah is there
any other what I'll call just like major
glaring issues no missions from the
report
because it is meant to be a little bit
more of a summary of like the last year
and some of what we're moving forward on
so I do like how we did further to find
some things
okay what I'd like to do if if we have
stuff should we just send them between
now and the next meeting for you so
here's the context right okay what I
want to do is is allow I want to allow
do some things and
that's it and we vote to allow them to
do that so that we don't have to yeah
both and actually literally call another
meeting
about this right so that's what I'd like
to avoid that's why the bigger part if
there's anything
that leads to be discussed as far as
content pieces rather do that now
um
I think with the discussions we've had
regarding recommendation number two and
adding and Workforce in the final
sections the
um recommendation three
um adding um and impacts on marine life
and
um narrowing down recommendation number
four as well as for in Nevada activities
to talk about Pathways and barriers and
eliminating all the utilities military
blah blah blah but just with clean
energy commitments
um those and then a little we didn't
really say what it was going to be for
the smart power but just a little bit of
refining that and we can allowed it I
think for that it'll be continuous
support and further Define the
relationships and benefits
that that sounds good that's again
another few words those recommendations
we move forward with this doesn't annual
report okay allowing staff to happy glad
yes so I guess the formal motion I'm new
to allow Virginia energy to make and
revise and accept this document as
discussed and basically that we do not
have to put it on it anymore
I'll take a second second all in favor
all right okay any opposed to this idea
and just really want another meeting
thank you it's a great question
um it goes to you uh
family running committees I believe yeah
as per the code it goes the annual
reporters Governor as well as the chairs
of House Appropriations and Senate
finance and the House and Senate
Commerce and labor committees so all
Finance Commerce and labor in the
governor's office are you guys also
combine it with your indoor report side
print
so we are
foreign
moving along
um You're Gonna Hear two things great
update from Kathy with r d and then
we'll discuss the white paper that has
been circulated this in your packet
um that we would attach to this angular
yeah
let's do we want to go through the slide
deck Point by point before we came up
with our recommendations for the white
paper
said that um it's up to you I don't know
yeah
that's foreign
your slide deck from previous
yeah okay
all right while they're looking for that
um I'll note and it's captured a little
bit in the annual report
had several good meetings recently
talked about this we had an August 7th
and August 21st
um it's really good meetings and I think
we did a deeper dive and just I've seen
before so I think it was time well spent
to be able to further Define kind of
what we're doing
um similar on those lines
so ODU is also seeking a grant that will
help
um support a lot of this r d activity
yeah and
it's one of the things that they reached
out to us and asked for some support uh
some of the things you did not see but
I'm telling you about it
um so myself as the chair and uh Kathy
as the the r d sub chair we signed the
letter of support for this r d brand
because it was due
um and
something that we didn't have to come
here discuss with and then be late on so
we were advised by Virginia energy staff
that as long as it was specific from
myself and Kathy that then we did not
need to bring it to the board but just
know
saved you some reading on some r d Grant
language so so we're being supportive
we're trying to be a little more
responsive to which
yeah all right thanks I'm seeing here
the next uh next slide
so if you recall what we did we had some
recommendations and the recommendation
from those was to prioritize them and so
we did that we looked at simple
they're urgent who who have required
inputs from and so we divided it into
what we can get done quickly in 2023 and
what we're pushing to 2024.
so the first of those is to revise the
objective actions engine impact we we
worked on that the workshop did
took a couple inputs and have the
revised language on the next page
that does not require uh Ballad of vote
so our work our Workshop our committee
did that and we have revised language
for the objective actions for our
objective not changing the objective
language only the action language
the next one is the list the bone
constraints for research there's a plan
of action for that and we've already
accomplished the first limit on the
documents for that and we will be
continuing to go through that plan of
action to complete that
um that recommendation
these are all in the white paper I'm
just going through that one by one
explaining to how we got to our
recommendations
the next one is the determination value
of the Dell RDC membership
we had representatives from now RDC they
gave a really great presentation and the
committee decided that the that there's
very good value in maintaining our
relationship and our membership with now
RDC
and some of the things that we've talked
about
during the these uh during the workshop
were what we had just mentioned these
the new supply chain project
um building off of the nreo project uh
and using the spark power region
analysis the point guard on that so
there's also we also learned that they
will be having a symposium this year in
December of 2023 and they mentioned that
they're having a symposium possibly in
California
in 2024 so we are actually going to look
to see if Virginia can be the host of
the 2024 Symposium that's going to
require more
uh
word uh conversations but now RNC and
more involved participation with them
and on the next slide was another or
continue recommendation was if we found
that our membership are now RDC was
valuable how do we leveraged it and
there's again a couple of plan of action
on how to do that we did learn new uh
actionable items from these reps and
one of the recommendations included in
addition to this line deck was
involvement with the state Action
Network and these are just uh State
members so they meet separately there's
a couple of other
subcommittees that they mentioned that
we would like to see more involvement on
as far as our Virginia reps go and
that's the r d committee meetings
uh
and of course pushing to host the 2024
Symposium in Virginia I think probably
seeing how the symposium
books in 2023 we we can better engage do
we want to host it in 2024 or do we want
to wait um so anyway that's not a
recommendation
to post it as a recommendation to
continue investigating Virginia hosting
the 2024 symposium
excellent
we have graphs from several other
research organizations
Rosa and rwsc and
came out with recommendations from that
was to these organizations do a lot of r
d and it's very collaborative
so what our recommendation is is to
participate more have our Virginia reps
participate more in these organizations
and share their information that they
received from that across the different
departments but there's there's very
little of that being done now so that is
our recommendation to increase the
sharing across Departments of
information that comes from these and
opportunities that come from these
organizations I'm considering the
sponsorship in Rosa uh rwsc brought up a
state caucus that they have that we're
recommending to participate in and
consider a contribution to our WSC
there's no requirement for that but many
states do contribute and we may find it
is in our best interest to contribute
and border to get more uh aligned
r d opportunities and more of them
coming to Virginia businesses
and we also spoke of
vehicles in order to do that and
possibly creating a valid budget in
order to do that rather than it comes
directly from the Department of energy
and that's just going to require a
further conversations
and so finally the the next last point
is to create the white paper
and one of those points
includes so from our Matrix
what are the items that was shown for
2024
looked like it could be an opportunity
for 2023 where the governor announced
the grant for the offshore wind
manufacturers so our recommendation is
to look at that because the EDP is just
getting it off the ground now to look
and see how they're how they're working
with that and how how is it assisting
what is the success criteria or that
Grant and see if if it would be in our
best interest and Virginia's best
interests to increase that Grant and do
a set aside for
r d for manufacturing research and
development technology research and
development as far as far as it relates
to Manufacturing
and then finally it was
um
the department providing valda a
legislative and budget Matrix that we
can follow and when we we find the need
or requirement or there is pass to
either write letters of support or
non-support or some of these items
so to move on to the white paper
in case you have not seen the the white
papers essentially a summary of
everything Kathy just said so
so the white paper is this
is again actual items for our different
committees our four objectives and the
committee said support those board
objectives but in this case most of the
work has been done for just two of them
it's already and then Howard's uh
industry barriers so this is the only
these are the only two objectives that
this white paper covers and the
recommendations again for rmd are the
ones that I just covered
and what and why are they pertinent
they're pertinent because our efforts
have to align with the state
administrative administration's offshore
wind energy priorities which uh the
department energy
provided to us
and you know I don't know if you want to
go over these but more quickly their
Administration priorities for offshore
wind are one deploy officer when
projects affordably to identify
opportunities for completion for
competition or other cost-ending
mechanisms three attractive officer when
supply chain to Virginia for Medicaid
Medicaid impact on Fisheries tourism and
other Marine Commerce there are five
Focus areas are affordability
reliability environmental stewardship
competition and Innovation and all of
our recommendations Point directly at
these Focus areas
and Howard yours are yours do you want
to come you're getting a couple years
correct so these were our
recommendations on this on the white
papers are actual items formalda and for
the Department of energy
let's take
admit we're going to vote on this white
paper okay
does anybody have any questions about
the r d portion of the white paper
like to thank everybody that
participated in the workshops Jennifer
was kind enough to give very uh great
Insight everybody did the presentations
by some of these organizations were
fantastic and I thank everybody that
participated I don't have a question
about the white paper specific to that
but I just went on their website and I
don't know when no that we are now rdc's
23 they don't have their their 23
conference on their website they
announced it at the workshop the
Symposium in December okay that's what I
was part I was missing
yeah um Kathy just curious did Renee
Riley from Rosa ever get back to you
with some slides on the benefits of Rosa
I hope
not not to me directly uh
not to me directly
okay I I hadn't heard from her either
I'll I'll try to follow up with her when
when I get back from Massachusetts
but she was on the uh
film call yeah
yeah
with with Rosa I just um when I was
presenting
um you know the benefits what's the
advantage about of joining Rosa
um I think I only had like one slide and
she was gonna
um provide some more
some more benefits
so I'll uh I'll try to track those down
from her
okay great yeah I have some notes here
about uh
some of these subcommittees that she
recommended
uh if we wanted to have a little more
participation and
try to align
some of their activities with Virginia's
Focus areas
and I will say because we talked about
it
if you know there's a lot of keywords
here like consider
consider explore
um the fiscal conservative hat coming on
is we're not looking to necessarily just
be
um a fund for all these other things
we're trying to find out what makes
sense you know even goes back to our
conversation about uh smart power it
goes back to our discussion about some
of these other things about
how can Virginia plug into the things
that'll actually add value to everything
we're doing and if some things don't add
value then we're not looking to get
involved in them right so just so that's
clear and again thank you to Kathy for
all the work that she's done on this
because the recommendations especially
how we look at what is in code for what
vouta is supposed to do and then also
aligning with the clinic
administration's kind of efforts on
offshore wind it's one of the things
we're supposed to be doing is making
subject matter expert-led
recommendations so that is exactly what
this white paper intends to do so unless
there's any other questions on r d
pause turn over to Howard to kind of
cover you could probably if you want you
could cover both an update to your work
plan section and then cover your portion
of the white paper as well if that makes
sense
yeah exactly third topic yeah
I just wanted to do an update on some
further conversations I've had for the
research I've done regarding the
barriers
standards and so forth
executive was it 1457 which position in
2021 it was except very old goals for
federal government immunization of the
carbon pollution free electricity
and it requires it had already changing
the agency to have specific goals
plans and some of those uh I think that
you know what I've looked at the dod
plan for example and I'm not finding
anything advice here so now is being
developed and so forth but um that is
you know the precious for targeting
federal agencies and video leading the
potential object because there's this
really distinctiveness to to do this
sorts of Contracting that we can achieve
this
language to 100 part of the position
that person I've met him in the basement
by 2030. that's okay that's pretty
significantly
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responsibilities
are deployed a lot of agencies are not
that we scratching their hands how can
you accomplish this you know uh you
don't have some kind of
better procurement avenues for getting
million dollar contractor uh for beauty
salon in your facilities uh that will
help you on this learning brand gives
the favorite kind of about things that
are not in the books I mean DOD a sporty
show because it does not according to
never into a German year of contracts
for the acquisition of energy
so one thought is
good to make love on the master of
evidence gone on to some sort of DOD
contract that would be with offshore
band developers and a free lighter on
that it's like quadrants agreement or
something because
so
um but that you know the executive order
creating an impotence for acquisition
between our it's I think as we live in
the government itself in some areas
so that was interesting Insight we
thought if that's the way there tomorrow
at Nasa and other similar agencies that
do not submit that energy in this
position
other updates
he is negotiating or being a switching
station of Oceana property and
speculations it might be some kind of
backup
emergencies if the grid fails and that
they're going to have the switching
station here and they'll get direct get
back up out that's that's just a third
hand piece of information
but I think the accidents couldn't be
largely written in this context with the
Navy and Mid-Atlantic in June continues
to the you know the twins to inquired by
The Calling to your person who's in
charge of that eventually
um you connect with Rick at around but
yeah he gave you the concept
goes down and said previously urging
person
so and the NASA persons that's of course
came out of debate and thereby so he's
coming to see if somebody thinking and
that can be where to get more
information
sorry the deputy secretary of the Navy
for installation of energy was just in
town what they had to say okay
um
catalyzing if National shares the best
language
you know it's natural to be if you're in
Mass some some of these things but so
far it's not obviously
directly procure on a long-term basis
it's a very constrained at most of
thinking but they can be directly is
sometimes sliding some solar on their in
your centers that's going to involve a
very basis and uh but that can't
possibly be promote
um
so that's just a little more information
and I hope to get some more information
that's I think that's the big women was
talking to them more I need to have
about this
um another topic that's interesting the
white paper uh I don't think judges how
about the ongoing Communications that
the general energy has with the the key
on the issue of can we get them to to
put in them continue the fuse materials
some application materials about the
wonderful available on the offshore land
and the green power and subconsciousness
to locate um
go ahead
if we do have I'm grudging awareness I'm
sure they're going through that but uh
that they they're being DP you'll be
willing to to have some sort of insert
some of the materials
foreign
materials
that are responsive to large companies
that they would like to attract and
large companies that are considering
expansion but already here
um to respond to that I mean a lot of
them say we want insurance
that we can be 100 yet probably neutral
on an everyday power always 20 35s a lot
of them
so they they're used to responding to
that and dealing with that on heretofors
but most of them sold
because it wasn't anything so
but so I I don't think it's alien to
them
they maybe don't have um
what we were thinking about that we
should get energy could do
is show how the grid mix in Virginia
will evolve to or Call of Duty 3
electrical power over the next 20 years
languages
you know admittedly it's modeling what's
going to happen it's not a guarantee
that it will happen but
um that's kind of
assistance we think we could all afford
that they could
be providers and them really
yeah that kind of thing
um and as you've learned
um
board making roads with voluntary
um on it they have all these disorders
but they also
are um
that was Terror constraints too so they
they want to buy that
or lower if possible just like all of
the big I.T companies they they want it
but they don't want to pay a premium
form
and that came up in my master
conversations
yes well Kathy you're with me back and
and the conversations you have too I
mean the the folks running the bases
have so many other priorities they know
their electric bill is going to get paid
is that fair to say so for them to go
out and that being a top until it comes
from the top telling them they have to
do that that goes to the back burner is
that a fair way of looking at it we're
really constructed as a deputy secretary
of the Navy but each different service
dot comes out something each service has
to do that selectively then so that your
secretary of the deputy secretary maybe
four installations of energy would be
where that came from an example this
that that order came to Oceana what Lou
Shaker was the CEO for them to put uh
build that solar panel um already oh
Shannon doesn't use any of that energy
because it can't connect to their grid
so they have solar panels on their
insulation but they can't you save that
power so you've got brand issues of of
what what kind of power they can't take
um so there there's those issues but
really you're you're over Thanksgiving
comes from the secretary at level nine
so everyone not your installation CEOs
um
that's going to have to be directed from
the segment
yeah it seems like if you're going to do
it you know you might
um
to other agencies
that's that's sort of the on the front
lines of this the
I don't know whether we need to now
informed what we just talked about in
the annual report
instead of talking about industry
barriers on that team to provide
recommendation and eventually
is that does that sound right
the purpose of the white paper
who will the white paper go to
it was our audience is this to give to
legislators so they know what some of
these things are specific to offer one
so I need to know the audience to
understand that directly but
wow correct me if I'm wrong the white
paper is an attachment to the annual
report but it's actually our specific
recommendations
two it's essentially you know to the
general assembly to the director of
energy security depending energy is that
correct
not an attachment to the animal or the
whole point of air down down to not
require rectangular yeah lots so I think
we're a big audience
um and uh
been team of Virginia
the governor's office policy office
um all of those
um
but these documents
to these documents can influent for that
reason I feel recommendations for that
reason I feel like these findings they
need that audience needs to know what
what we've uncovered but what the
findings are what concerns are so I as
is maybe tidying up a bit I think that's
what you have here is probably
appropriate to be reported to that
audience right so just add that I would
see white papers being submitted as
subjected
workshops and the Committees provide
their reports and we vote on actual
recommendations actual items but then
send them to Doe
take and share yeah yeah that that's
what I think throughout the year not
just once a year but I mean as you tell
yeah right like for example so this
white paper that
will clean up and adopt is essentially
would go up because with the two items
we talked about r d and then you know
PPA barriers and Pathways type thing but
we also know we'll hear shortly so
Eileen's also digging into one of the
action items on Workforce so when some
of that gets further developed and
massaged that would probably be another
one pager it's called actionable items
so we're feeding information up the
chain of like we did the work here's
what we think you know executed Chuck it
in the trash it's up to you it's
important
things were
for us to be passing this up the chain
and
it's more for the internal folks and I'd
rather I'd rather them filter it unless
we're making a very specific budget or
policy asked
um
was asking so I wrote down here is we
know that the election this year is
going to be quite interesting all 140
seats up so I was going to ask the
question as we're doing this and we're
coming to understanding that we're
creating white papers what response you
know is it appropriate for about members
to make themselves available if there is
a new especially for the newly electeds
to be able to I know BMA takes them on
tourism the board takes them on tours
all those kind of things but is it
possible to make us available that if
they have questions specific to Offshore
wind just to ask those questions or is
that just so part of what we should be
doing my thought and again AL correct me
if I'm wrong this is going to sound very
Rank and file but being that fauda
works for Virginia energy and we have
the director of energy now
um who's our boss in this case so
I want all this to go up and be filtered
through if that's something they want to
do now I paused there because yes when I
leave this meeting and I put my VMA hat
back on when you do Sierra Club hat you
do whomever you guys can do whatever you
want in return in terms of talking with
legislators but as far as the fouled up
position
um I wouldn't want I wouldn't want to be
in a situation where where pumping stuff
is about a to the general assembly if
inner three occurrence it's not
alignment with what the department and
administration wants to do how is that
that's cool I think that's pretty well
said and we
got a slide on that um the first r d
committee meeting and you know basically
the it boils down to
policy at the legislative level is very
Dynamic and fast changing and so the
administration will appreciate
very much that comes to them not
directly what is from valid
well said
each have your own
plant lives as well and sometimes
may not be in alignment with your
Administration but at least when you're
doing that you should never do that by
the way but request on you know
strange alignment on Stars you have to
um it shouldn't be as a representative
from The Authority yeah I agree
and
um just kind of following up on their
plan and this was Dr Jennifer
um
following up on a lot of the governor's
amendments to Senator Hospital regarding
um chairman of Sherman procurement we
are going to be a party of Dallas
so I've seen a lot of your business on
procurement a lot of your research be
very informative to the drafting of that
bill
foreign
about
um
helping with legislation I think that's
the point of kind of some of the things
we've shared here what goes in the white
paper what now Al and the team has and
you know Chris sits on the golf showing
coordination team and they're working
with the policy office that they've now
heard all of this and then so my thought
is they're doing what they're doing
behind closed doors on our behalf
because we've now handed all that over
so that they can they can make the
sausage as they say
um
and not per se meeting for us to call a
meeting and to talk about what we just
talked about
with them well
under that I almost feel like the fourth
bullet point we should just strike
because if there's already action in
terms of what's going on if it is a
barrier you need to leave them there
is reporting hours
for sure sure
is
legislation that we've developed
appropriate renewable energy certificate
mechanisms
is that just something Maryland and New
York and so forth
um so I think we don't want to be ahead
of the at odds with what the
administration is
thinking about the last one obviously
that's that was
that brings active in that one the last
succession
so I would like what I'm hearing I would
like to generalize that sure
and otherwise just to to change the
handling company that's whatever
Pathways to it
convention
yeah I would I would call it PPA
barriers and Pathways or just something
so General and I don't wanna
or is that not what you're thinking I
think uh you know I'm gonna just I would
say that there's because she's going to
do this
it's a lot of different things but so I
would not say pkas the questions
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ingredients
the commercial and the legislative
barriers
or some barriers or just that yeah
bringing some barriers yeah that is
straight Pathways and barriers
either is fine I think it conveys what
we're talking about
offshoreline Pathways and barriers
what do you think
offshore wind password got it
pessimistical
language
well Howard I want to thank you and you
know Kathy there's a lot of work that's
going on with this this year these were
the two first ones we did kind of
getting these two items forward and um
you know Eileen had asked specifically
hey give me some time to work through
some stuff um otherwise that would have
been the third one that would have been
all in tandem but now Eileen's going to
talk about you know you know here a
second what's going on with Workforce so
we can do the same thing and I'm happy
to see that we've I think we've figured
out remember last year how much fun we
had talking about how we were actually
going to do stuff and it's like we
figured out a way to do stuff how to
have meetings how to do people do it and
it seems like this model is working well
um
my job just keep us on time on the
agenda
um so any other questions specific
to what you've heard on updates and the
white paper if you haven't figured it
out the white paper is a summation of
everything you just
said
what I would like to do
similar what we've done before
I would like to
move that we allow Virginia energy
clean this up with all the things we've
talked about
right and we don't need to see it again
but that we also adopt
this white paper as recommendations that
will go up through the department of
energy on behalf of Bala
hello
all in favor
aye aye any opposed
all right fantastic we have a white
paper folks
thank you all right now I'm turning it
over to Eileen who has again was the
volunteer to take the point on the
workforce portion of our action items
out of the work plan
and I know she's been doing a lot of
great work behind the scenes kind of
exploring and going to different events
and meeting with different people so
Eileen with Flora Shores
all right well um
Swan announced
now so
SWAT standing door straight
um
businesses opportunities and threats I
thought it was swapped as in Spring
support
weaknesses advantages of threats so if
they have the opportunity sound more
like advantages
a lot of places
so this is um a little bit of an editing
reiteration the goal
um that's in our
um
documents language to sports and
development of an offshore wind
Workforce that brings jobs in clean
energy to the Mid-Atlantic regions while
providing economic opportunities for
disadvantaged Coastal communities and we
added into veterans and local workers in
there as our fault yeah the straights
um the one of the strengths is the
potential for offshore wind to support
the creation of jobs in Virginia so
saving obvious that we all know with
both the C Val and the Kitty Hawk
project and future leases in central
Atlantic and Atlantic Hampton Roads is
developing a foundation to become the
East Coast preeminent offshore wind
staging and Marshall report and setting
up to be a major hub for the offshore
management stream and with that there is
a great potential
slides oh how do they do that just well
advances yeah
yeah I'll just saying well next next
promise I've hit next
I didn't take it
you're screening is showing it but
it's funny
go ahead we'll figure it out all right
so the second strength
um there is a very large
um almost 200 about 200 Universal range
stakeholders that are involved
um there's stuff involved in offshore
winds from reps to the in the K-12
school districts community colleges
trade schools universities Workforce
pencils ngos business alliances Etc
there's multiple training and
educational programs are being
identified an additional curriculum
developed to leverage the skills that
currently exist in one of the nation's
largest Maritime time Workforce
and I'll add into the 11 million dollar
Eva good jobs account challenge Grant
board to uh Hampton Burns Workforce
Council thank you Steve to support 20
Outreach Specialists I'm going to be
working specifically in the Hampton
Roads who Academy is to engage
one-on-one with individuals in these
communities and we also awareness part
of that conversation it is a maritime
brand but also remember it's a part of
that conversation we are very labor
strong uh most installation and staging
jobs will be from union representative
employees and now to the National North
Americans owning trades Union and the
Virginia Affiliated Virginia Building
Trades have are positioned to train
workers through their existing
apprenticeships programs for workers on
great wages involving training
one of our other strengths is the big
story we have to tell because we are
indeed opportunity to beat this movie in
the nation
um we um we have the first project in
the nation in federal waters and we will
have one of the first of the commercial
projects um about six weeks so for
Japanese
there is bipartisan support for offshore
wind most of the by Divine
um
is is related to jobs
um there's been bipartisan support for
John Creation in Virginia
um continuing with strengths um we do
have commitments
um in for diversity hiring and for local
hiring safer commitments both um with a
particular clean economy act and also
with Dominion um the sea valve
stipulations that um that this the S60
in post
um and then also the bow and leases um
future home Lisa's ugly stipulations and
that support both Workforce Development
and supply chain Investments by the war
of the winning Developers
and then also like I said before uh
bonus cued to offer additional offshore
Wednesdays in Mid-Atlantic so there will
be hundreds of turbines coming hundreds
of turbines coming to The Limited
learning area and with Hampton Roads and
stahubalantic area this will spell out
to be a tremendous number of jobs in our
area
moving on to weaknesses
um there is a tremendous needs for more
promotion of the jobs and training
opportunities
um especially within disadvantaged
communities while there's over a hundred
that ten thousand individuals that have
been touched regarding the clean energy
career opportunities needed for on
offshore wind and that is um that 10 000
is a Dominion number that maybe to you
as far as how much they touched on clean
energy career opportunities needed an
offshore home video can't promote excess
study provides a list of those jobs
a lot of people unfortunately don't know
about off Shogun still and or what those
jobs look like
we need more coordination and Leadership
of the state level
um certain amount of
um with but they're optimistic about
that especially with the offshore wind
focus of the young we're hoping that
there is an offshore win
um you know a high level uh priority
date by the new Department of Workforce
Development advancement Dennis
that the organized and centralized
instead of being spread out over a
number of agencies and apartments you
know there is that mobilized
directory department and that they make
priority of off Sherwin and that is the
biggest of ours because we don't have
that um leadership
um need for more gwo training and
Maritime welding in particular
um there's a lack of vocal on Campton
roads um gwo the global wind
organization training especially the
life-saving embassy survival
certification programs uh and I did put
a note in here that scene information
that I've seen Mr Mesa mentioned that
are basic exposing on jobs that we have
that they would prefer to put their new
hires through their preferred gwo
training program and also make a note
iPad conversations with folks that do
the royalty there is a specific type of
welding it can't be just the general
building that's offered in a lot of
community colleges and trade programs
but it needs to be a specialized Marine
level in training
um also there is a need for more local
pre-employment and pre-apprenticeship
and coordination of the wraparound
Services
um these uh these are for better and
then also for other promotion of those
programs and those wraparound Services
especially in impacted communities in
need
and note it also was the need for
individuals to have to pass a background
check is a huge dependent for people to
to be stops
so moving on to opportunity slash
advantagement
um offshowing employees a very wide
range of workers
um option wind is a maritime industry
which is um employs many of the same
skill sets and experience the
shipbuilding and other Maritime I'm
actually getting switch Hampton notes
roads is very well known for and learned
well I'll sit again there's a large
record population looking to transition
to civilian employment and they are
particularly well suited to um offshore
wind industry
there are large Employers in this
particular space specifically Dominion
to do so and there's a very long history
of stakeholders all working together
very Cooperative it was a it's almost
like a family everybody is really on the
same page and working together and very
interested in working together we don't
have any
um you know different opinions and
everything can't think is on the same
page and wants to work together on this
so definitely that is a very huge
opportunity I actually put that one's a
category of strengths is that we are a
large body that is really cool yeah they
have been doing so since 2009.
um so moving on to threats
um the worker shortage the ship building
industry in Hampton Roads has um a five
thousand dollar five thousand job
deficiency worker shortage involves uh
welders pipefitters Machinists
we have the jobs this is the same
soldiers now we have the jobs but not
the workers
bus welding Works in a commercial iron
sense
that out so we need um says changes that
need to be made State policy as well as
the uncertainty in the uh the broader
offshore wind Market
um changes to State policy as well as
uncertainty in the broader offshore wind
Market there is difficulty in competing
for OEM Investments given many northeast
states who have local content
requirements many of those States offer
incentives to in excess of one billion
dollars and guaranteed and guaranteed of
future orders uh making it difficult for
Virginia to be competitive when seeking
fluid um Investments
also a threat is the high interest rates
inflationary Transit Supply chains
are high interest rates and collision
returns as well as supplies
sorry chains and strains of Europe
resulted from Ukraine
and then some additional Workforce
pipeline challenges um the HRBT they
have to move through each funnel as well
as other infrastructure projects are
being built in the region are creating
additional Workforce pipeline challenges
and alternative career prep career paths
for individuals maybe that may require a
lot less training and certification the
the offshore wind job is some of the
offshore living jobs are pretty
challenging there's extended periods of
time offshoring workers have to be
amenable to when they've got a ship in a
month or two weeks each of the
consecutively
yeah and then this channel is also
created by the recent option one project
selections delays statements about
abandoning the U.S market by many
developers from growing Summits and
litigation objecting to Offshore winds
states such as New Jersey creating
uncertainty in the industry
oh
um yeah and so I just threw out some
preliminary recommendations
um and these obviously the next step on
this is to pull together a group to have
to flush this out so that it comes up
with you know some really fine-tuned um
and appropriate uh recommendations
um the uh increase the uh the state uh
budget investments in offshore wind um
as you can find a an enrollment report
from October 22 that just sort of posted
out how much money was invested in
Workforce Development that Virginia had
about 580
000 in Grants to build an object and
supply chain
meanwhile you'll see Maryland investing
2.8 million Massachusetts 3.8 million
New Jersey 4.5 million in New York 21.
um these these these four states are
also ones that have the highest number
of existing offshore wind energy
Workforce training program I thought
this actually the statistic wasn't
exactly Fair because
um do we even know how many Workforce
training programs are in Virginia but
nonetheless Massachusetts have reported
having 12 programs New York 10 and New
Jersey five in Maryland four I I will
try to follow up on that exactly as to
how those are derived they're probably
state sponsored programs
um and uh though also we want to
increase the state level coordination
and prioritization of offshore wind as I
indicated before making a priority
especially amongst the Department of
Workforce Development that offshore wind
is
for the idea of providing financial
support for an offshore wind office I
know that that's something in the past
that has been discussed in offshore wind
director
um so there's better coordination
coordination and um two keys that really
need to be led by the state for both the
coordination and the pub the promotion
so identify the gaps in the workforce
and supply chain and to develop a plan
to eliminate those gaps and you need to
support the definition of Officer
William Johnson
and the final look just some of the
books there
um
contributed to this report on John
Larson with Dominion Steve Cook thank
you Hampton coach Workforce Council
um Julia Pendleton from the Southeastern
Berlin Coalition and Dean
Eileen thank you
any questions comments I mean I will say
I'll tell you right up front probably
how this is going to go similar to the
other ones
um you all are going to be asked for
comment so not not like the second but
like when you go back chew on the
document give some thought to it provide
comments back and that will kind of set
up the next meeting when we do that
there will also likely be a subcommittee
again put together uh similar to what we
did with r d so all those things are are
coming
um any initial thoughts comments
feedback here for Eileen
Arlene specifically but maybe more maybe
the most knowledgeable of
these these positions that she
remarks on within the department of
energy
worked set quite a while ago do you have
any insight of why they haven't been
filled yet
well they were still at one point
um
deputy director appointed by the
government
um this Administration has taken a
different path to use anyway also when
coordination team as the
Focus the full prom I guess of offshore
week policy and depending on the
department of energy to
staff to that well and other agencies as
well because they're
secretariatives involved in the
owctober
so they're environmental agency second
level development of these new things
from the workforce and others in
addition to us
as far as why we haven't fill them
um
um yes
I think we're meeting the requirements
um but we don't have a director of
offshore when
and that wasn't approved by the
um I think it's partly for Budget
reasons we had a budget request for
one point
six million that was
down to 1.2 million
and then 600
640 or 60 000 I can't work the final
total but it didn't make it it didn't
pass
so we didn't didn't get that funding and
the offshore funding that we do have in
general funds
um is there and is being used a
salaries and four other means or
um Contracting if we do that
um
you did much before we go to you
for three years
are we doing anything currently
um
anything
Contracting Consulting you know similar
to ODU what what are we doing what is
the Department of agency paying for in
the realm of offshore wind but it is
moving towards wolves towards Australia
and virtual again
that will result Virginia Department of
membership and okay
yeah to work on more of their stocks
but yeah
we don't have the same old
receipts anymore
also they are contributing resources as
well towards offshore wind conferences
you know and trying to think
I don't know about that one but yeah
so with the business network but I don't
know that was a doe
yes
the governor's function
s
staffs I mean
coordination team
well Chelsea leads it and we bring all
the different universe
Infinity energy does a lot but we're not
the only one we probably do more than
other agencies but the economic
development for sure
um often presents does analysis provides
data on garage recommendations or
authority
um Imports in general obviously play a
big role and Chris Atkins been
often involved at those meetings
um sharing information
um and it
what the focus is is based on what the
industry
status is at the time so the Siemens
energy
renewable energy
um press coverage
um created a lot of analysis over a
period of weeks which is still ongoing
so we're doing a lot of that
um
and the board authority
also have been involved in that
um
whatever the the topic of the day is
sometimes we'll hijack it but the intent
of it is the long-term coordination
March forward
but achieve the goals of the
administration in the energy between the
offshore wind of this election
yes I'm going to switch Gamers so give a
break here
um I'd like to and and Steve's here so
he may be able to answer some of these
questions if we're good to call in but
what in your labor if you don't know it
labor strong he says earn great wages do
we have a number that goes with what a
great wages
I mean I like what I'm making right now
but I could have a greater wage I can
know that but it's industry specific I
mean it really you know you can
I think a great wage is because depends
on what you're doing growing and
whatever 15 right now seems to be kind
of where everybody's starting and that's
strong retail you know on on uh so
you you almost didn't hear you know in
the offshore wind industry that is
definitely higher than that could you
come in with certification as well as
you know there was a point when I was
involved with Civic we did industry
cluster things there was a point where
we said Brian may go to this that fifty
thousand dollars a year was considered a
good living wage for the Hampton Roads
area at least is that still 15 000.50
yeah
um and then the other question is with
the worker shortage that's referenced
here with you know just shipbuilding
have a 50 000 John that has efficient
there five thousand excuse me that's the
annual bottom line yes
um the question is did the has the
offshore winds
coordination team discussed that because
I assume that the Secretary of Labor is
part of that coordination team so has
that come up as to how do we build an
industry while another industry is a
little or and how do we do that
I would say they're cognizant I don't
know of what meeting we discussed that
exact topic but it's yeah yeah was it
okay I was driving up yeah that you're
right because
yeah we did we did do an overview for
that group and there was a lot of
activity right now a lot of dollars
coming in to the state are coming into
this region to help fortify you know all
of those pipelines not only for chip
building it should prepare but the
construction that Eileen was talking
about HRBT these grants have wordings
that are considered all of these
industries as part of those dollars so
that 11 million dollars is building to
help fortify some of those pipelines for
for all of them so it's kind of uh you
know we've done a lot of things
happening now got a lot of money focused
on the Navy and the and the shipbuilding
uh part of this that you're prepared but
a lot of money coming in that's also
trying to tailor it to different
Maritime related Industries
about logistics somewhere else again
one of the comments in here about the
fact that you know they already start
working let's say they start working in
the shipyard then we keep a great living
wage there and then why would they want
to transition out shortly when those
opportunities get there because they
don't necessarily want to leave Newport
News building because it's a great it's
a great gig right just but I call it the
same as you go and get your CDL license
you're working for Amazon while you get
your two years of experience and then
you don't want to be a long-haul trucker
because you get to go home every night
if you're working for a delivery local
um so I'm just it'll be curious to see
how we we get there we promised all
these jobs for offshore wind we talked
about how it is and more jobs more jobs
more jobs and at the same time we're
seeing that people can't feel it so I'm
just so that's the that's the thing I
want to add is
we don't have a jobs problem and we
don't have a training problem
we have a body's problem and so one of
the things I would recommend we add to
this and we don't have to vote on it
because it's just this is a preliminary
document but
um third recommendation because we're
working at it with the VMA Statewide in
other groups is this is a K-12 and
marketing problem is what it is and the
idea that people just don't know these
jobs are out there and when they're
finding out about them it's a little too
late so I mean we've seen that it's not
even a college problem college is too
late to be talking about some of these
jobs it's not a senior high school
problem because that's too late it is
literally and I've spent a lot of time
with a lot of legislators over the last
week around the state and they're all
loving this idea and so I think there
might even be some legislation around it
of this is a no kidding middle school
and Below elementary school education
and marketing push for all these types
of jobs because that's what it is I mean
there's there's so many programs out
there like the shipyard that they'll pay
you they'll you guaranteed seat and
training guaranteed job and they can't
fill seeds and this and that's just one
company and the other schools and
pipelines as well same thing so
um
so it's really some of this effort is
also yes we probably need more budget
Investments than some of these things
yes we'd need a little bit more
coordination but the problem is getting
people to say hey this is cool and I
want to try and or I want to get
training in it
which is my initial thought
um any other thoughts or comments on
this preliminary
um review and filing
okay well thank you Eileen I think this
is great like I said I if chew on this
if you have ideas send them back around
to the team
um because this will be again a deeper
dive at a further meeting we'll work on
getting the subcommittee put together so
Eileen give some thought too about who
you'd like to invite to be part of the
subcommittee the good news about that is
you can fill the room like we did with
others with subject matter experts so
you could have one or two Vada members
but you could have as many smes as you
want in that space
um
moving on to other business
so first I also see there's no public
comment so we'll be skipping that
I wanted to make a few comments on other
business Laura I'm going to put you on
the spot if you can do it quickly
can you pull up the Marco portal and
share screen and show the latest uh
Central Atlantic police areas
I will try give me a minute I figured
you are the master of Marco so I figured
I mean this would be piece of cake
yeah so while while she's pulling that
up two things I want to talk about real
quick
um or the first one everything going on
with the the North Atlantic right whale
and Noah uh so there's some proposals
about uh increased speed reduction rules
in the maritime space on the East Coast
there's an existing speed reduction rule
in place but it's in much smaller areas
and it applies to vessels 65 feet and
above what happened last year if I got
this right because we've been working on
it pretty heavily is uh Noah said
essentially that what we have in place
right now is not working and they're
proposing even deeper and more
restrictive speed reduction rules that
would essentially cover the entirety of
the east coast and it would apply also
in this case to vessels
um between 35 and 6 65 feet in length so
it would add a whole new batch of
vessels specifically also high-speed
craft when you think of pilot vessels
and when you also think of things like
ctvs so that has a pretty big impact on
offshore wind this is not new I'm just
letting you know that um
you know the VMA our own Virginia Pilots
the Port Authority the national pilots
and a billion other groups have been
weighing in with with Noah to basically
say hey I see what you're wanting to do
here we want to protect the the right
whales we all want to protect the right
whales but this might not be the best
way to go about it so there is some
legislation in place or being introduced
in Congress that will essentially
um not fund this new effort until
there's some studies in place so it
effectively
or slows down this process until
some data based and scientifically
backed you know studies can be done to
see about what the most effective way is
going to be to protect uh the North
Atlantic right whale so that's underway
a lot of our Congressional Delegation or
there's some members of our
Congressional Delegation that are are
flat out opposing the the
newer restrictions
um I'll say at least from the VMA
standpoint
we're supportive of the let's hold off
on funding this program until we can
get some real informed decisions and
that's really what the maritime industry
has aligned on so just bringing that to
your awareness
uh what Laura is now showing is the
latest version of the central Atlantic
lease areas which I know many of you
have seen
um
this is is essentially what it is going
to be the main comment I want to make
here because I'll tell you this and
that's why I love working for trade
Association because my job is just to be
objective and decidedly neutral I know
there was people who were happier about
this and I know there's people who were
not happy about this right but here we
are because what it looks like and if
you remember looking at the images
before where you saw a lot of potential
areas and I think sometimes that that
gets people really excited when you look
at a massive swath that is possible and
then it gets narrowed down to what is uh
reasonable in this case and that can be
disappointing to people
however really the main thing I want to
say here is what we're looking at here
is years worth of work and years worth
of coordination with all of Virginia's
stakeholders and so I will comment
from the Virginia standpoint
what we have is good because it has
taken the input of
commercial Maritime NASA DOD commercial
fishing
everyone and believe you me and I know
Laura was part of these conversations a
lot of people here have been part of
these conversations this was a lot of
work getting to this point where we have
some additional lease areas that seem to
make sense for boa and all of other
Virginia's Maritime
interests so I just want to provide some
feedback on that because like I said
I've personally been working on this for
years as part of my day job you said
years of work it's decades I mean only
these three well the new the new version
the new version of what I'm talking
about the new version
those are my favorite uh
I say that just because yeah they're
like six hours long and I sit there and
just listen the whole time to everybody
make comments but
um from what I understand like I said we
this is likely gonna be it
um
these these shapes don't tend to get
bigger
they tend to get smaller but
from what I understand everyone is happy
with this for the most part in Virginia
so
want to really share that with you a lot
of work goes into creating some shapes
and then someone has to pick what colors
they are right and so that that's I
think Laura does that she just
arbitrarily picks the colors and shape
so that's all really I had for some
other business that I wanted to share
with you all I'll also say so yes ipf
next year is going to be in New Orleans
so that's going to be a good time but
I'm also talking with B now it
definitely looks like they're going to
bring ports and vessels back up here in
2024
um so we're doing our favorite thing
where we fight over hotels and dates so
one was here last two 20 times yeah last
year it was here and then this year
they're in the Gulf yeah and then now
they're going to come back up here from
what I understand
that's a it's the business network of
offshore wind has a sub a smaller
conference for offshore wind around
ports and vessels specifically focusing
on that and we had it here last year so
um that's all I have unless there's any
other
other business or closing remarks I'll
just make a quick comment and I
appreciate Eileen mentioned October 10th
that notice coming out yesterday from
Boa and also just to mention uh coming
a number of folks from Virginia will be
in Boston for the American clean Power
Association offshore wind conference
which will be interesting very timely
with uh all of the activity taking place
uh in Wind so Virginia Hampton Roads
will have a presence exhibiting a new uh
Steve Cook from Workforce Council will
be there along with a couple other
stakeholders
um I will be participating on a panel on
the Wednesday on the offshore wind
supply chain and be able to Showcase I
think uh with other ports what's going
on and obviously here in Virginia we
so obviously we have I think the best
story to share with uh really obviously
sizable opportunity not just a p t you
know we'll talk about PMT but even
thinking about across the river at
Fairwinds landing and what they're doing
there for the op space with Dominion so
good story to carry out to the folks
along the east coast of what Virginia is
doing here in offshore wind
yep
I think that's like the department of
energy
yeah can you just remember Let's uh give
us like that the administration
priorities slide that
thing can you find it I thought you had
enough there at one point
yeah
we'll email it around
okay
any other other business comments from
the board I can't find people to think
that B Nails do anything here with
Virginia Beach I want to say September
21st but my brain is not worth it
yeah they're doing foundational blades
they're doing something over at the it's
at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Bronx
that yeah we're doing yes I'm sorry I
don't I can't find the date on my
calendar but I'll make sure everybody
has that page sentence
and quickly we've covered three
objectives the fourth objective will we
have a report uh
and I think we talked about this where
kind of thing back when we looked at the
objectives
there's about two or three of them
they're a little vague but they're also
like very well handled like very well
handled and so we focused on the initial
freak that needed a deep dive a deeper
dive from this screw so I probably have
to go look but it would be like on the
supply chain thing for example I mean
maybe Chris The Alliance feed EDP or to
live in that
all the time so I think maybe a horror
yes everyone poor down is probably
better than like doing a deeper I don't
plan to do a subcommittee on it I don't
plan to do spot or anything like that
just because of
where we are with it but um
maybe our first meeting in 2024 and we
can block off enough time for almost
multiple participants in that supply
chain effort yeah could present almost
like we had in the subcommittee right if
we had all of those if there's there's
anything that we can support or not
support or do workarounds
um there certainly have to be some
threats or
that we just showed essentially that
culmination so far and as long as we
understand
um
playing defense stuff like basketball
that's what keeps me up right now it's
like what we finally have kind of got to
a place it's like not messing it up
because if it gets messed up we
literally
go back like several years to the
starting point
um
September yeah
that's a good analogy that is spot on
make sure that's an event yeah
supply chain update
so will do we have some sense of when
that next meeting will be
I think you think in January
it could be I mean that's something we
could take for Action is
um
yeah
it could also be virtual
you have that or do we do it making our
one Richmond meeting because we do it
next session and it's going to be
getting busy with all the things
legislators so we should either try to
do it before the election or
but that's like in a month yeah no no
we're not doing another I don't see us
doing another video right now oh this
year at all okay well look at it
people just don't yes
I I will say this let me let me say this
because the main committee our main
board may not meet again this year but
again the Committees And subscribe and
me so
um to continue certain or whatever
we can send out four digital polls if
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um edible encounters follow your head
thank you
okay last call anything anybody wants to
share it's important in your heart
greetings George thank you very much
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