um our Focus as a group of Partners um
that are
working
and companies that can make major
investments in Virginia um we've uh have
relationships
with a quick rundown of the companies in
those
buckets
many times with all of the companies on
this list and so they're all aware of
Virginia we continue to
have the ability to um establish a
location in the
US on the next slide um I think it's
important when we are thinking about
what we want to accomplish here in
Virginia that we have keep in mind what
the competitive landscape looks like um
in the states that we we like to think
we're all working together to develop
the industry and some ways we are but um
in terms of the economic development
aspect of this just kind of a
competitive Spas um and these next three
slides so I put together last August I'm
pretty sure they're still up to date if
anybody catches a something need to be
corrected please let me know um but one
of the things to keep in mind is that um
you know especially in New York IND nucy
there's just the greater density of
projects um and uh with that density of
projects likely a lot of that supply
chain investment um that will be driven
to the Northeast not to say that
Virginia doesn't have opportunity we
certainly do and in some respects um you
know have an environment that is much
more conducive to some of these
companies that want to uh invest in the
supply chain but I think it's important
to keep in mind um that that kind of
center of gravity um around southern New
England um New York and New Jersey will
certainly um Drive supply chain
investment up there um next slide please
um so the other you know we think about
what it needs what needs to be done to
build out the offer wind industry in
addition to these facilities so we can
manufacture components in the US we need
Port infrastructure to do installation
and staging um we need vessels to do the
uh the installation offshore um so
Virginia um certainly has an advantage
um uh compared to the other states that
on that last slide um with respect to
terminal infrastructure was interesting
there I was at a there was an operation
the maintenance conference in Virginia
Beach the the oceanic Network so no
business Network for offshore wind is
now Oceanic um they had o M and health
and safety Summit in Virginia Beach and
uh gentleman from fost Maritime that's
developing uh an on andm Terminal
facility in Massachusetts with
describing um all the aspects of their
facility and others in New England and
and I've essentially viewed it as an
advertisement for uh the great benefits
of Virginia compared to New England when
they're talking about a facility that's
in the vaker and we're talking about the
facilities that we have here that are
potentially some case of hundreds of
Acres so um Terminals and four different
structure are still something that
separates Virginia from others although
some investment um like I mentioned in
Massachusetts is kind of narrowing that
Gap a bit but it's really important for
our value proposition to the industry um
and then on the next slide this is a
really interesting one so it's it's not
a comprehensive list but it's a a list
of announcements um of supply chain
investments in the US and they're really
important take away from this slide and
is very different from when I last
presented this slide um is that you all
have kind of heard about the I call it
like the industry reset that's going on
where some projects are being postponed
some are canceled and going to be um
rebid into new
solicitations um in that same vein um I
can just I can probably point out uh at
least two or three projects from this
list that are not going forward
unfortunately one of our own um with the
blade facility uh see blade facility but
um looking at um project in Albany
powers and transition pieces that's
hasn't really gotten going and is like
probably not going to or will be
significantly delayed um I have heard
there are issues with the cable facility
um in Bron point in Massachusetts also
the helenic one um in Maryland and so I
think with this um with this reset and
this is a kind of a just a mat uh
thought and commentary is that early on
uh we were seeing that states were
willing to subsidize supply chain
Investments um by uh companies that to
Direction many times of developers and
rate payers were going to you know
subsidize the cost of those Investments
I think with that in that reset where
cost of project development are going up
so much um there's probably less of an
appetite to um subsidize uh supply chain
investments in that way and in my view
um that's really good for Virginia
because I think when uh the market when
we're operating in a kind of a perior
market where companies are making
location decisions with on the basis of
the best place to do business lowest
cost place to do business uh most
advantageous place for them to serve the
East Coast Virginia just becomes more
competitive so the more that this
becomes a Pur market in terms of
deciding where locate the supply chain I
think Virginia is going to be in a
better and better position so um I'm
actually probably a bit more hopeful
than I than I was um even six months ago
um so um just a great example of what is
maybe going forward on this slide up and
down the East Coast so go ahead to the
next
slide um so this is a slide I use
probably in every one of my
presentations you all have probably seen
some version of it um you know and I I I
show it again just to kind of illustrate
why Virginia is competitive relative to
these other states again I mentioned our
unmatched support infrastructure uh like
also our unmatched Workforce in the
maritime sector in the skill of Trades
compared to these other states and then
in particular we're often competing in
general in Economic Development we're
often competing against States like
Tennessee and North Carolina Texas um
but when we're competing against States
our Northeast we really time when it
comes to buiness clment so that's
something that um will certainly uh p uh
and make sure that folks that are
Virginia are aware of hey mat a question
excuse me for interrupting but back to
your point earlier about just you know
the costs Northeast versus down
here is that embedded in Pro business
climate you know when you say there's
more favorable rates here
than in the Northeast where where does
that point fall into your slide yeah and
absolutely put that in that Pro business
climate when you consider like um you
know when we talk to uh companies that
are often interested in specific in
incentives that state of Virginia and
localities can offer but I mean
essentially when you're thinking about
labor costs that are much lower in
Virginia that's a kind of a hidden
incentive and other things I think are
are that cost Str into the
pay
well it was kind of a leading question
because we we assume
that you know the industry will
capitalize on the better rates here in
Virginia there's an assumption there but
but how do we proactively make that Happ
you know is it up to the power companies
just to uh discern uh you know who's the
the best offer or you know how do we
advertise that in in realistic terms
that this is a
better uh so we essentially as an
economic developer and the folks we're
working with we're doing that on a you
know a basis of speaking with individual
companies our marketing materials um
provide that type of information
so we are out there uh currently
speaking to the industry about uh the
characteristics of Virginia that would
be
advantageous that's the general
marketing effort through our our
Collective Economic Development
operation what all the elements that
exist here you know whatever they are do
do they use this as you know a
negotiating point that we have the best
rates and how do we know that you know
we have the best rates can beat so and
so up in the Northeast by you know 20%
say rates just from my own clarification
what rates are you referring to the cost
of energy or the rates the the cost of
having a business here like the that Pro
business part tax and housing like it's
200% more expensive to live in Boston
than here I looked into that so so I
mean so that's what I clarify to me what
so I understand what you're asking I I
guess it's all in okay I'll be you know
so you know which brings up another
Point actually how do you express that
in real terms that's understandable it's
not laser Force but it's everything you
know it's housing here you know
schools um you know whatever those rates
are plus you know the actual business
costs that that are occur a great
question so um both the H Alliance and
the Virgin Economic Development
partnership are able so we have done
this for numerous companies that are
considering Virginia versus other states
um we will provide customized reports
for them um where they tell us the
things that are important to them and we
will compare let's say um we just you
know we'll do it for a labor force
comparison that's an example of Hampton
Roads in Virginia versus you know a re
New Jersey or something like that so um
EDP actually has a tool that you can you
actually can go online and say I want to
compare uh all of the costs of doing
business in um the New York metropolitan
area versus hampon roads and from tax
rates to the cost of unemployment
insurance you can compare those at the
state and the regional level so that's a
just an off-the-shelf pool that we use U
but we also work with the companies
we're talking with um to do customized
uh analyses that are comparing the very
specific regions where they're
considering close meing projects so um
we ask them you know what's important to
them and then we will put together a
customized report so they can
specifically compare Virginia to a
competitor thank you I hear you say
cheap labor or is being a pro I'm pretty
sure I didn't say cheap labor I said
expensive
La yeah yeah um yeah because you get
what you pay for so I wouldn't because
being cheap lab um that's the term I
wouldn't use but it is a fact that labor
in Virginia is less expensive than C
living is so expensive everywhere else
so it's it's relative okay yeah worker
comparat utility cost take all those
factors
into I I still
think the and I would defer it actually
sort of you know from a developer
perspective what are those mechanisms in
place that are sort of maybe leading uh
trailing Supply chains to not I'm say
required but let's say it's looked
favorable upon investing in
Massachusetts or Rhode Island or New
Jersey vers you know so those while it's
the developer it's really the the the O
the O M or the oems and the tier ones
that are going to make those decisions
we can honestly when offshore wind
develop can sit anywhere and develop but
your PPA for the power
purchas impacts the cost of our cell to
enter into so there's that yeah yeah
exactly so I mean and this is me talking
off the cup not representing my company
at all but I mean I mean it would makes
just seems reasonable and common sense
to say that the cost of the power that's
being purchased anywhere in a more
expensive area to live overall um
comparing it to here is going to be it's
the demand also though that's the the
hard part with the cost of energy they
have a huge demand up there so they're
arguing for it they're fighting for it
Al probably can speak to this better
than me but they're fighting for you
know they're bidding they're in bidding
wars for to get the power from these 800
megawatt projects versus the 2.5 ones
that we have right off the coast here in
the midatlantic ready to go you know um
and so um so yeah so that that impacts
it but it also impacts just these these
auctions as far as that goes too I mean
so but um your point is not lost on the
fact that that does make a a point when
you when you're factoring in all those
things to sell it it does make a
difference to where the the area is and
the cost of everything that's involved
in actually developing a project
sorry no that very helpful it didn't
yeah and that was just
Ashley all right um hopefully that was
thank
you um you can go to next slide
please so I I just wanted this is kind
of a follow up on one of that icons in
that last slide highlighting our you
know our Port infrastructure you all are
probably well aware of this but I you
know work is going on um both at forc
Marine Terminal and I Chris if you're
going to give an update on what's going
on at PMT um so I I'll keep it short but
um you know Virginia Port Authority is
developing the premier um with energy
Logistics wind on a portion of PMP um
that project is well
underway they've already received first
components for SE Val there um and then
bewind Landing uh right across the water
um what one of our I'll say one of
probably the three sites that we can
really Market in our region um to
somebody that is looking to make a a
large supply chain investment that needs
a significant acreage on deep water it's
really potentially P three terminal
everyone's landing and there a site in
ches PE called ches peep water terminal
that's on the southern bran um the
Fairwinds Landing they had gotten some
money um through the state of Virginia
ready sites program to do some demo work
um Dominion Energy is uh starting uh
construction on their um we in
coordination Center there and then um
there also be a a ship building
component from the the Miller group
controls that property and they have a
company called fairly so they'll do some
ship building there but a good half of
that site is really being marketed as a
place for offer wi component
manufacturing um and um recently the
city of GK was awarded a port
infrastructure development Grant of
almost $40 million which is have to be
matched so there's going to be
significant funding um and around 80
billion to put uh help upgrade
infrastructure at herwin Landing so that
that's really significant especially
when you're thinking about when you're
speaking with a company that's looking
to make a supply chain investment and
they're looking at incentives that are
offered State Virginia versus other
states when you can say well we have an
incentive package um that provides this
amount in cash grants this amount in tax
um relief um sount and Workforce
training assistance but if you're also
telling them you're going to have uh $80
million of avoided cost um if you go to
Fairwinds Landing that you're not going
to have to make that infrastructure
upgrade that's a pretty telling story as
well well speaking of the story
uh the point that you're making here is
Virginia has doubled down on
optional and does that strategic message
come out does that come out from
Richmond come out from Hampton Roads but
basically what what you're saying is
we've doubled down with all the problems
over the past two years Virginia's
making it work and making it work
efficiently and and making it work it's
multifaceted you know all the different
teams that you had in in this you know
Enterprise so I I don't know I kind of
wonder what's the Strategic message from
the Governor from brond so I'll quickly
just cover a few things because I want
Matt to be able to finish up so we can
keep going um the the governor has
included offshore wind in his all the
above energy plan um those of us
involved more in the supply chain sector
here in the state and Hampton Roads area
uh the Virginia Maritime Association the
handr alliance the court Authority part
of this is you viewing it through the
lens I don't want to say as much about
offshore wind for some of these things
but it's really about the utilization of
the supply chain in our Maritime
infrastructure so offshore wind at this
moment tends to be components and pieces
that we're taking advantage of but it's
really about the Strategic use of our
transportation infrastructure and our
supply chain to inhibit offshore or not
inhibit excuse me but to really like
just bolster um offshore wind the
industry from the supply chain inside
right if that makes sense so
um and I'll add something just uh kind
of more General about really the
positive narrative um that we can say to
people about Virginia so not only are
are we investing in Port infrastructure
um we also have a really positive story
uh with regard to project development
too um and that you see that the SE
valve project is on time and on budget
um first amount of PS are going to be
installed later this spring um that can
be contrasted to some things that are
you know happening in the Northeast
where projects are not necessarily going
forward not all of them but some of them
are going forward on time so we have a
positive story to tell with the assets
we have um with you know the project
that is being built off of our post um
and the in the positive there so I think
we have a good story those delays are
happening because of cost and you can
read all the articles that they provided
email so there's that
all well you know we read all the
Articles you know that that come through
but I'm just wondering is there one
strong strategic me that says we're
doubling down you know wrong wrong word
but words but that's what Virginia's
doing because we have worked this and
it's working efficiently you know the
the progress that we're we're making
think will probably cover some of the
legislation that may be perceived as a
way to
double but I would say again with our s
well with our messaging um you know all
of those things I'll go back to you know
the second slide I showed about all the
companies that we're in contact with we
are we are providing that message to
them the industry okay you know yeah
because we're individually interacting
with them so the industry at large is
aware of these things that are going
where's off it compared to other states
as far as its investment into the
infrastructure as far as uh would you
basically want to see more money I mean
I think anybody that is in the industry
would say that more money is needed no
matter where you are to develop terminal
infrastructure um so you know you all
and I'm sure that these slides will be
shared that one that goes into um Port
infrastructure you can kind of see how
Fort infrastructure is broken out by
state um you know other states are
investing more you know State money um
import infrastructure I would say we're
kind of Lucky in that we don't
necessarily have to do that because we
started from a better investment is
needed we started from a better place
than our competitor space in terms of
terminal
infrastructure and Jim just to I want to
Echo what Matt was saying mean
ultimately I think Virginia through go
Virginia funding to really stand up what
Matt's efforts have begun and and has
taken forward over the past three years
has really proven successful because we
are now globally recognized in the
offshore wind space and and and I don't
think that's overstating how the great
work that I think Matt has LED and then
obviously all the various stakeholders
to really take the message and it's po
infrastructure yes we're very fortunate
but then that that Workforce piece is so
recognized and that we have such robust
existing ship
building that Workforce is is golden and
um that is again it's recognized and
then having successful project I mean
Dominion is you know on budget and and
on time and really obviously unique in
that they're the utility provider um not
a developer but it's you know something
that people again globally are
recognizing that this project here in
Virginia is tracking well and we're
leading by example of success sure there
a little hiccups along the way
ultimately I you stand back and look at
other projects and other markets up and
down the East Coast Virginia is like the
one star or that's the one you know
optimistic light out there and the the
market is prudent that there's some
things we can't talk about yet but you
should see in the near future this year
maybe sometime it's like there are there
are major projects in the work for for
manufacturing to come here that are
independent of any of the projects here
so that means is companies that see the
value in Virginia not because of a
nearby project but because of who and
where and what Virginia is and offers
and so that I think is a is a huge
Testament to why Virginia is a is a
competitive and best place to do
business because it is attracting major
Investments that we will hopefully be
hearing public announcements it's agree
say we to yeah um but also wanted to
follow really quickly on Chris's Point
um and that that we are recognized I
mentioned the oceanic Network um you
know states that have more resources uh
than Virginia um we are recognized as
kind of being a leader in how we're
approaching supply chain development and
that when we go you know to these major
trade shows and other events um we're
going with a a delegation of folks that
essentially are kind of a you know uh
companies can get their questions
answered because we're bringing economic
developers we're bringing folks from the
port of Virginia we're bringing will
from the major time trade Association so
we're we're we're kind of taking a a
collective stakeholder approach to
Economic Development to bring the
expertise um that these companies are
looking for um to essentially help
answer questions about you know why
Virginia is the right place to invest so
instead of just having you know somebody
who is lightly knowledgeable we're
bringing deep knowledge through a
variety of Partners to interact with
these companies and it's really been I
think recognized practice great
thanks so you can go ahead that next
slide um I think this is kind of the the
the money slide even though it's a short
one um so again uh setting the
groundwork of essentially at least from
my uh perspective of three and a half
years of work on supply chain
development two of those really solely
doing that um we had the alliance along
with our partners um at BP and BMA again
in the port um working you know several
large active projects um and we kind of
classify projects in certain stages can
be kind of just an open project um where
a company is still in very broad
decision making process um but we are
working two projects right now um where
the company has received an incentive
proposal from the Commonwealth of
Virginia and the locality um that they
are considering here at Anton Roads and
so um two projects have received
proposals um and those projects
represent um approximately $1.2 billion
do in capital investment and would
create um directly 950 High wage jobs so
just direct that is just yeah direct U
job creation for those two
projects um and so um we are working to
to close this projects and I I think I'm
not stepping out of balance by saying
that we are um you know nothing is
guaranteed yet but uh I'd like to see
announcements um know Le for one of
those projects and hopefully go by the
first half of this year so
that's and then finally um kind of you
know this is i' I've talked around these
points uh pretty pretty much the whole
the whole U presentation but you know
just in general um a high Lev strategy
um you know again goes back to trying to
attract those anchor manufacturers we
have a very real case of a company um
that wants to um manufacture a a major
supply chain component here um but they
also are interested in bringing um their
suppliers with them to Virginia and are
looking for or a facility um that's
large enough that could accommodate them
so I think it's really starting to prove
out our our kind of approach that if you
start I mean we want all aspects of the
industry here and need them to support
projects they in the Z in Phase as well
but that kind of domino uh strategy of
attracting some some anger tenants I
think is contined to be the right
approach no piggyback on multiples that
that if we in Virginia do great things
to make it affordable for companies to
and and with all of the attributes we
have here then when they're bidding on
these even if the project is up north
wherever it is it could be in California
wherever it is those that is a benefit
to their their their submission so it
makes sense that companies would want to
establish themselves here just to save
the cost when they're doing the
proposals in order to Wi be awarded the
project um and then the second aspect of
this kind of two-prong strategy is is
really to to play up our ability to
serve the industry from a um kind of
construction and logistic standpoint um
and I'm happy to have ch talk about PMT
if you if that's what you
want go ahead and wait if you want to
wait but yeah yeah because how much time
we have yeah so um that's my last slide
happy to answer any questions that
you'll have or try to answer go ahead so
um Matt and maybe um any of the staff um
can anybody speak on the offshore wind
manufacturing Grant small business um
grant that was established but the ADP
was working on Logistics and structure
and this and where where does that stand
so I'll start and I think I'll let will
finish up so I was on a committee that
helped the be kind of structure that
Grant um and so uh B because of how the
the language was written in the budget
that funded that it was I was say
unfortunately restricted only to
manufacturers so there's a a kind of a
limited pool of companies that can apply
um I think it would probably have been
more beneficial to we know just that
there are a number of companies that are
outside of the manufacturing space that
you know we need to have the service
industry so that's just kind of a
commentary um about how it's structured
and to let you know who is eligible um
and may be a reason why I just will not
had a conversation so will on the
committee that is evaluating applicants
and I believe there have been two
applicants this far there there's two
applicants at the moment and Friday the
committee is actually getting together
to review the applicant Review Committee
is to look at these two proposals so
it's it's cool I mean one of the one of
the companies is in Richmond one of the
companies is here locally in Chesapeake
um so I think nationally we would have
liked to see more I think if this grant
continues we'll probably want to play a
little bit more you know help BP with
the language about not making it so
restrictive to uh manufacturing offshore
wind manufacturing adjacent um and maybe
open a little bit more for Logistics and
supply chain but we're encouraged to see
two applicants My Hope Is if there's
only two applicants then maybe we can
fund both but we'll see well that was
our one of our recommendations also is
to include
R&D um expanding that grant for R&D also
because a lot of times R&D leads to
better um
better better manufacturing better Parts
better
uh stuff so is that something
that the department is recommending for
the general assembly is to expand that
Grant any way and expand the
uses um I'm not aware of anything at
this time like a budget request um for
that specific project there are 80
approximately 80 energy
bills um and was the deadline for one of
the deadlines so
um needless to say there's a lot of
analysis and review going on that's not
complete and as of
yesterday um Larry who's our policy lead
he's not on the call because he's
chasing down this legislation trying to
get better information about the
intentions and purposes of some of it
which always is mysterious when it's
first introduced um and neither of you
have both of those in your in your
packets but I have not heard anything
about that I think maybe they probably
want to get a year or two under their
belt
um I think this first round will be
telling I don't know if it's
conversation then we just need to have
with BT or whomever owns the language
for this for this specific brand um
especially after we've gone through this
one cycle and we can see how it goes um
but I think that's definitely open for
the conversation
thank you mat mat is always always the
right gu
so right all right moving on now we're
going to talk about some Arial project
Updates this is related to R&D and again
huge thanks to Kathy and the work she's
done to really spearhead the subgroup
and we've brought in another one of the
uh the wind Avengers if you will Jerry
croner Who's the executive director IR
Fen Seas part of ODU um to give us an
update on aial so I will turn it over to
Kathy and bar and I will'll turn it
right over to Jerry okay can I can I
stand up or do I need to be one of these
I think I think that Mike can hear you
um if if someone online if you have
trouble hearing Jerry just let us know
and you
can I prefer to stand up most time some
of you good to see some familiar faces
uh glad to be here uh thanks for the
introduction will and Kathy for setting
up the time I'm here today to uh look
for your support around one active
proposal we have going in and one of you
were just awarded by Noah so go to the
next slide
please uh and the concepts around
something called aerial as Matt knows
we've been working on this for kind of a
while trying to find funding for the
whole thing I think I found a source so
what I'm really looking for here is for
support and the idea is you know what's
you always ask in the world of
innovation and Entrepreneurship what's
the need uh huge needs out there we got
to drive down the cost of offshore
renewable energies and that's across the
entire life cycle which means Innovation
it means better Technologies to deop
better Technologies need places to
develop them to test them and that's
really really hard if you're on the
developer side like G and GD Dominion or
whomever you want that stuff der risk
before you put it into a production
operation so you got one side of the
folks who are innovating the other side
of the folks who are developing and
really don't want to take the risk of
untried Technologies untested unring
stuff that's what Ariel's about next
slide
please so what's the approach what we're
trying to put together is a
constellation of assets against which
folks who are trying to develop or test
things do certain things can go to and
try that stuff out okay one of the
things we actively have going on right
now we're about to launch with the city
of NAIC this fall at willby spit at the
boat launch facility is a uh testing
area for unmanned uh basically Maritime
Vehicles so that would be part of it the
other part we want to add into there is
within the same framework put in the
offshore leases because that's another
place we can go to so the program
approach have a number of assets like
that provide a structured environment
for developers and uh researchers and
those folks to go and do their stuff uh
with the end result
you're accelerating job creation you're
accelerating Innovation you're working
to drive down the levelized cost of
energy as you're producing stuff out and
the other bit is really making Hampton
Roads in Virginia play higher on the
stage of folks who are important in this
area we can't always be buying our
Innovations from someplace else it's an
opportunity for the stuff we're doing
here but it's also an opportunity for
markets around the world because as you
all know this is a global market so and
also last part we want to be leaders in
the world they're at least in the top
tier mentioned in the same breath as the
woods holes and the places along those
Lin next
slide okay so
elements you see the elements we put
together obviously there'll be places
hopefully the offshore leases the will
be spit facility the third island to the
chese Bay Bridge Tunnel and a couple of
others who have said hey we'll do this
other element in there is how do you
know that if you do X Y or Z it's going
to have a financial return that's where
modeling comes in we're developing
really really strong relationships right
now with the national renewable energy
lab who just got up brought on as a
power connector to essentially help them
with their programs to get rid of the
problem of investing in uh sort of
technological development that at the
end of the period there's no investment
and there's nothing that goes outen to
the real world so helping them align
better so they've got models on this
stuff at least for offshore wind
operations and maintenance and they're
going to be developing the same thing
for other offshore renewable energy
elements uh third party certification
American Bureau of shipping indicated
the willingness to be those guys who say
Hey you say your item can do that yeah
it does that so I know if I change a
parameter it'll have this economic
output right I've got these guys who say
we can do that I've got American Beer of
shipping that says yeah they can
throw in the price and you configure Roi
right pretty good uh and then kind of
putting programming around it so
competitions supportive things design
projects working with universities
working with startups working with
innovators to try to solve those Gap
issues out there and last business
acceleration and incubation type stuff
to help those companies grow next
slide just kind of a graphic
the Virginia offshore leases be a great
place especially for a reference
standard for certain types of behaviors
uh the Massachusetts blade test facility
has indicated the willingness Stu
comeing and do this am and Geer of
shipping will bay National renewable
energy lab that we're our relationships
getting better every day with and as I
said chesp Bay uh third island out there
but when you don't have to go 21
nautical miles offshore do some sorts of
things right next
slide so there it is this is the uh
current status some of the things we've
been doing all right talked about the
Willoughby Bay that's going to launch
either summer or fall this year there
should be some sort of event that goes
along with that to really uh promote it
probably some sort of competition
supported by dipy and State uh we
rewarded a planning Grant from Epic from
doe because of our initial planning on
these it
items been working with NATO on related
items uh Power connector I mentioned
I've been talking with the Navy I
brought the concept up to the Navy they
really really like it because it solves
a problem they have and the problem is
I'm a person who says develops a better
way of doing Serving and maybe I'm using
platooning of unmanned vehicles or
something like that so instead of a 20 M
SWA or 30 m swap I can have double that
significant impact on costs because
you're talking vessel Transit time right
right how do you know it does that well
the Navy's got ranges the problem is you
can't get into them you don't have the
security clearances so they're saying
boy this would be great we'll support
this because this is a way for folks who
don't have clearance and can't get into
cardok and some of the other stuff done
by the Navy to have facilities and
capabilities to advance the science and
solve problems that are not only
important to Offshore wind and offshore
Renewables but they're also important to
National Security and St the Navy do a
highlighted one is kind of the big eye
on the prize thing uh we were just well
it's pending award they're still working
through the the paperwork stuff but the
kickoffs down in New Orleans on the 20th
of uh February we got awarded by Noah
what they're calling a climate data
accelerated incubator
Grant cut through all this
Ira language that's in there really what
they're looking to say is hey to develop
stuff out in the oceans you need better
data and one of the tiers in there is
offshore renewable energy so when we
were highlighting what we're going to do
that's one of the big ones we're
concentrating on and the idea is to put
together a capability where you're
identifying Innovation and helping
accelerators and incubators to advance
it along and also bring in investment so
we're on board for that that's the
planning Grant phase two of that is a
$10 million grant for four years for the
area that would be huge to add that
Innovation part of sort of our economy
you know we're looking for the big guys
to move in we're looking for the
manufacturers we also need to be hitting
the Innovation
part this whole aerial concept fits in
really really well with that so my goal
is by the time we submit that phase two
not only here's our plan but we've got
the Willoughby thing we've got the
aerial thing we've got these other items
lined up in some other relationships
which is going to put us in a much
better position to be taken from the 15
phase one awardees down to the five who
get awarded $10 million that would be a
huge thing for the area uh so what are
we doing now like I've been doing for
the past couple years on this thing I'm
trying to line up the funding uh for
this type of stuff the good thing is I
think I found
uh I've got a really good relationship
with what used to be the office of
economic adjustment when I was hired to
ODU s years ago was to fix one of those
programs at the University was only
supposed to last for two months
uh seven years later go fig uh but I've
gotten
probably about $2 million worth of
Grants from those folks over time and
they want to provide more money one of
the things we were looking at was the
wind s thing out they were looking at
financing that but now we're joined up
with Virginia energy against that R step
Grant so you can't really get two grants
paying for the same scope I think
there's legality issues so I talked to
the folks about this aerial concept and
that the uh that the Navy was on board
so this is something they're saying hey
submit that we're really interesting so
my goal is to submit a grant to those
guys to get the basically the detailed
planning and the initial money of
initial Staffing and operations to get
it up and going and depending upon how
that looks then you know will it take
some stuff from the general assembly is
it going to be you know is there a
sustainment model where you have folks
paying for use those sorts of things we
don't know until we do the full planning
next
slide so what's the ask I'd love a
letter of support from you all going
against that LCC B that would be really
strong because I can get one from you I
can get one from the from the Navy which
gives the dod side I think that gives us
pretty good lock on getting a few
$100,000 out of them uh for the purpose
of getting the thing up and
going you all as I understand and
they've been looking for some way to
bring those leases under a framework
where activities going on out there not
necessarily on the towers that obviously
needs to be there's a lot of
coordination with Dominion out there but
we've got these places of land
or undersea territory out there which
would be great to use as a reference
standard that if somebody's trying out a
new survey device or somebody's trying
out to see if they can make a bunch of
drones actually act as a swarm which is
a really really hard problem that we
have a place that's very well mapped it
gets better mapped every time somebody
goes over it and just like anything you
say your you say your fish can uh your
survey fish can uh detect these things
fine run it over what do you pick up
using it for that type of those types of
activities would be really really
powerful and useful so I you know if you
would consider doing that we already
have anou in place with you which when I
read it it doesn't look like it's ever
gone away because it's in peret
perpetuity until one side or the other
goes don't do it anymore so we've got a
mechanism to do that so considering that
uh I need advice and participation in
both an aial board but also for this
Noah data thing one of the things Noah
is looking for is that we have industry
participation and we have government
participation okay I've got other folks
lined up got a bunch of folks from the
offshore wind industry who we've been
very successfully ping to get
information from but your support in
that area and at some point in time
depending on the planning there might or
might not being asked to the general
assembly at hey this is what it's going
to look like to sustain it here's the
return to the Commonwealth this is what
we're asking for so next slide that's a
quick question what's theou with is it
with v or with ODU or with the state or
who's the mo who are the people I
believe it's a state and ODU you're
talking about
theou with the Department of energy DM
yes I think it's our agency and's
confirmed yeah okay yeah I I looked it
unless Something's Happened it looks
like it's still in place I would I agree
with that assessment
okay I just want to clar still in place
um unfunded unfunded yeah I think you
ran uh that task force under it or Paul
ran that task force under it you know
whatever the Comm task force Comm task
force this would put a little bit
different activity under there and I
when I read it looked like you could
drive a truck through it which is sort
of my favorite kind of agreement just
coming from there's a couple other uh
points that it directed ODU to be not
just the gatekeeper of leases but also
to develop a website and a landing page
for those with interest of using the
lease areas so it it was a whole list of
things that I think fit in our about
objective that just was funded for one
year and then never funded again was
funded for three years sorry my I think
it was all used up in the first year
right no no but it it it was not enough
money to accomplish all of those things
right so the ask is a letter of support
from that ask is a letter of support and
the second part of the ask is hey those
leases I got a framework if I can line
up the money to do it and we'd love to
put it under there looks like we've got
Authority or anou in place that would
allow us to do it okay and I know what
aiel is but what the heck does it say
next slide hey Jerry it's not the little
mermaid yeah
[Laughter]
the um the no climate data accelerator
planning Grant which service of know is
it service or ocean service I I I I okay
in fact serving system one of our
teammates on there is uh Mark
maracus so uh I guess I on a regional
basis T out to the different regions so
we brought them on board because they're
basically we're looking at data right
how do we do technologies that get that
better data everywhere from sensors
through platforms through Communications
through data leges through analysis
right any of those are are fine we're
looking for advancement they're the ones
with experience of sort of what I would
call retail data distribution so real
time data yeah and Jennifer whitlaw
who's one of our professors who's on my
team who I worked with on wisight used
to work maricus so it's like the stars
are kind of L but back to what Ara
it's kind of geeky and I'll get rid of
it if it really we got the it got to
have an acronym there it's not okay it's
not an acon okay it can't be it's it's
very Virginia Shakespeare wrote a play
called The Tempest it was based on a
shipwreck that happened on ship that was
going to Jamestown and the person found
this Sprite this this kind of fairy or D
you know she or whatever language you're
calling this stuff in who's basically
the one who said said hey on land I'm
see on air I'm your I'm your person I'm
your I'm your go-to person so they're
kind of with area you know it could be
on the water below the water over the
top uh honestly we've started
discussions with the folks over in
Portugal they're trying to do something
very similar and we're going wouldn't it
be kind of cool to have a cross atlan
range uh in fact I'll be in Lisbon for
the oceans conference
in March um and
so anyway questions um when would a
deadline be due like when is the letter
needed
uh it's a rolling submission okay uh Tom
crabs you know Tom yeah uh yeah I I
spoke with Tom before the end of the
year to tell him why I hadn't been
putting in on the expansion of wisight
because we already we're waiting to hear
on our step with the state which is one
I brought up okay I've got another one
nabe says it be really valuable it
solves the issue you have of let's
promote the use of these leases y so
okay yeah um so what I'd like to do
then open it up for quick discussion it
because the the idea here is to let's
say vote on providing a letter of
support for this phase one any other
either clarification Cathy you want to
give or any
other quick relevant comments
the the importance of
R&D as far as not just it's one of our
objectives but it it also allows us to
respond to issues proactively versus
reactively and that's very very
important we don't want um somebody
else's research to to come up and bite
us when it could have been our you know
developed in our
own wheelhouse
yeah and we don't we not made much
progress in that objective of of
R&D and this is a this was one of the
options uh from the SWAT analysis and
now that it has some some funding some
backing some extra Partners having the
military especially the Navy involved as
a partner is crucial and I think will be
a very great letter of support um for
that effort also from the Navy not
always easy to get and adding not just
the offshore wind lease area but the
Willoughby area also
is I think it's a win-win for everyone
not just for the letter of support but
also for maybe relooking at thatou if it
needs to be adjusted to the current uh
doe instead of bmme and maybe tweaking
the language some as well we should
maybe look
at as a separate item from the letter of
support to providing some input to the
department on how that should be
reworked yeah I like
that um any other
comments I guess I have an admin
question being relatively new to this
group does this Authority have the
authority to submit letters of
support yeah we have we've done that in
the past
if you don't have the authority we' been
doing it for 10
years J you our letter was helped get
your your this initial Grant I had a
letter of support which helped me get
that phase one from B yeah there were a
number of nice little pieces that pull
together for that I I have a question
about Ariel um not about the letter
support is that okay uh kind of if it
steers us back to voting on the letter
but go
ahead well just within the realm of
things that you're looking at on
Technologies is floating wind also in
there you know the nice thing about
these well it's offshore Renewables in
general okay so it can be everything
from wind to floating to wave to current
to title and if you deal with the enr
and the doe folks these days they're
using more the language of offshore
renewable energy than you you're using
offshore wind uh so and our take is the
Technologies cut across all of it you
know you're looking for North American
right whales regardless of whether
you're ping piles into the bottom or
you're doing a survey or you're doing
whatever so the these are all enabling
technologies that just make life and
operations and business off the coast
better yeah and that's what we're aimed
at okay um any other comments about
submitting a letter submit a letter of
support okay second second all in favor
I any
opposed okay so V will um submit a
letter of support for this grant um
Jerry if I could leave it to you and Al
to craft some draft language for
Signature and we'll go from there
thank you so much I appreciate you any
other question if anybody has any other
questions on on aeriel I know Jerry is a
wealth and knowledge and Lov was talking
about that stuff so be an overnight
success once gets
up all right thanks
everybody
faces oh yeah you saw that I can lose it
if me be I'll
Nord all right moving into the uh
relevance of where we are with session
going on right now Al talk about
legislative update um little bit you
have a summary of the two bills that are
clear and
directly um in the realm of offshore
wind
um Senate Bill 578 would do what it says
here and a lot more and
it's very broad I would say there's a
lot to be interpreted in that
um we don't have
any idea yet from the governor's policy
team or from the offshore wi
coordination team or any other policy
focused group above our own office of
policy um whether they support it
whether they are
a sponsor or whether they're still
looking at something on their own um but
clearly it goes after one of the um
key principles that the governor's
office has put forward on offshore wind
that it be
affordable um and that competition be
entered into the process somehow um and
as you know there was a legislative
attempts in the last session to do that
that didn't didn't get
traction um here's a another attempt
even Bolder I guess from first reading
um but like I said I don't know if the
regulatory
construct in Virginia would make this
would require additional Chang
or not
um but it's pretty straightforward I
think can I ask Howard something Howard
down there what is your opinion
uncapping that on a dollar amount no
matter
how 688 the other bill that's the second
yeah that's the second one
688 yeah I that one I I think I'm not
sure what the Genesis of that would be
is there some issue that's
being raised that somehow
with
problem previously I I just done that
that came out of left field as that's
our analysis as well and we have some
outstanding phone calls that haven't
been returned
yet as of yesterday we did the other the
other Bill certainly consistent what we
put in white paper overall aition level
to
comp any discussion on any of these
bills I'm sure you guys have
seen what about a letter of
support yeah so the interesting thing
here I'll talk a little bit about I'd be
and it's really going to see you know
kind of how what we discuss as as a
board and then also talking with
Virginia energy from what I just heard
from
Al Governor's Administration is not
waiting yet off and coordination team is
not waiting yet um I me
eventually question from the public or
statement from the public okay um so yes
the governor's office has been very
involved in the Deeds bill um their
policy team has been heavily reviewing
it um this is a fairly a heavy Coalition
of developers and NOS um putting is buil
together so and we started this process
uh late last summer before we knew what
the U General Assembly was actually
going to look like this year and so the
expectation was is that we were going to
have a split assembly you know
Republican and Democrat and so had
started the process with the governor's
office to get their to get their full
backing on this fill so um governor's
office has been has been fully Weare and
and is in support is in supportive
Center
being haven't told us that
yet but if these points uh reflect the
the white paper would just a general
letter saying that these are the points
that uh policy that vaa uh supports
support these points in that bill as
well but well without supporting the
bill itself but supporting the the
points of the bill support the ideas of
the bill who's the letter of support
competition go to well that's a good
question I think I think really that was
I've written down several comments that
I think need for us to be clear of kind
of what the what the procedure would be
of supporting this um everything from a
few key dates I think the first key date
would really be you know crossover you
know we have to get something in by
crossover so the 13th of February if we
were going to decide to formally support
a piece of legislation or the goals or
intentions or ideas of a piece of
legislation um and then whether or not
that gets into our bylaws of how we do
special meetings um virtual meetings to
basically come together and vote on
something do one yeah so um but again to
ask question who who exactly would the
letter be or two whichever two is is
something that we have to we'd have to
determine can a letter be sent to the
members of the general assembly
more to the administration or to the
department for
you yeah yeah I think that's the better
the better play is is we would write a
letter of support essentially to the
department Andor the administration
because we're the board under them and
say this is what we think you know give
it to your policy minions and um
distribute accordingly yeah that makes
sense so the other piece um we were
talking
about you know kind of in line with um
our own authority and what we're
supposed to be doing is again support
for an idea or a bill of does this not
only be on white paper but is it good
for Virginia that's kind of like the big
question because yes there are lots of
developers involved public and private
there are differing opinions right so
one of the things I can speak personally
for my own Association is what the
answer we've been trying to solve
is can does competitive procurement in
the offshore wind space does it is it
good for Virginia in the sense of at
least in my case allowing our own
Maritime and adjacent Supply chains to
maximize on the offer wind industry
period at least that's again I'm
speaking only for like how my
Association is looking at it because if
we can we can objectively say yes to
that then it's something that we can get
behind that by having multiple
developers you have multiple vendors
tier ones tier two you have a greater
sense of a of a busier more involved
thriving supply chain right um when it
comes to the cost of power or other
things of what that might look like you
know I open that up more for discussion
because that's less than with what I
deal with on a day-to-day basis um but
it's worth discussing as a group here
what what we would like to do but it is
early because like I said there could be
amendments there could be all kinds of
things that come with this bill what's
uh crossover so crossover is the point
in the general assembly when both houses
the house and the Senate they have to be
finished with the bills on their side
and then hand it over to the other side
so all the all the house bills go to the
senate for consideration all the Senate
bills go over to the house for
consideration so that date um they're
supposed to be all W wrapped up with
their own chamber bills by the 13th of
February and then they hand it over
thank you Jennifer uh just for awareness
U Monday this coming Monday there will
this bill will be first presented before
UMB so we'll get the first hearing on
the bill on
Monday is there a caucus for that
would is it like is it like there's a
military caucus is there a energy
cus I don't think so
okay that
committee
there is still Thursday morning there is
no house count to this yet not yet there
had been one um I heard that delegate
asked you this but um um delegate Scott
settled
it well a commission on elected utility
regulation which is compos mostly of
members of the House of delegates and
the Senate that is
bothos to be a clearing house it's not
necessarily A CL house because you folks
have been appointed to be available I
don't think that I wouldn't think there
GNA it's going to be an active body this
session there's been a first meeting I
serve on it that's why I
mentioned it's two citizen members but
otherwise it's like six members
each for what work I don't know that
they consider themselves an energy cauet
as
such so I think it goes back to the idea
of if B was to write a letter of support
for the goals or intentions of of
competitive procurement that we send up
to the administration through uh the
department of
energy it's it's looking at the talking
points and coming up with something that
we feel
report so it's reiterating that as
submitted in our annual report these
points also in the white paper blah blah
blah
blah so where are we sending
it the department
of to the
governor I mean it would be in my in my
mind here we submitting it to the
administration via the department of
energy yeah we are under the Secretary
of Commerce and trade in the governor's
cabinet and so we we pass on your policy
recommendations and the annual report
and the white
papers through our director who was an
appointed official from the
administration to that
team not to you can't submit I recommend
that a copy of
it commissioner worker whatever they're
called CHR
yeah we
do if you send it to the governor
it it doesn't go right to H it goes to
the secretary right and then I don't
think anything you send to the governor
goes directly to the governor yeah but
then Secretary of of the Commonwealth
distributes it to the appropriate and
there's a policy office there's that um
offshore wind coordination team which
multi cabinet members there's
layers it's and oh boy we get letters
from the governor's office that are even
looks like his email but it's not a real
email it's goes to constituent services
and um obviously he could never look at
everything that comes to him so I think
though it comes back to again under
eventually under Authority and
limitations you know this does fit where
we're looking at our primary purpose
primary purpose of the of V is for the
facilitating coordinating and supporting
the development of offshore of the off
wind industry offshore wind energy
projects Associated supply chain vendors
and amongst among other such duties so
basically if we feel that SB 578 kind of
fits in there and says yeah this is
consistent with what we think um based
on what we previously submitted with
white paper annual report Etc um again I
think that's on the table for
discussion any more discussion on
this
go that we um write a letter support for
Senate Bill
578
second consistent being consistent with
the annual
report we want to reinforce the point
like gu without reading through the
whole bill and having it summarized and
just these points I would instead
recommend that we just stick with what
uh the points from the white paper that
I think we all agreed on and the our
annual report so it's just a reiteration
to the administration of we
already supported this anyway we're
happy to see this and yeah but not for
the bill
itself we don't you know I haven't read
the whole bill there might be like two
or three points in there that we don't
agree with so that's
fair um for you so it's to the need of
vote um are you proposing another
meeting to review it are you authorizing
the chair
to work with the staff to produce a
letter based on the recommendations in
the annual report in the white
paper authorize the chair working with
the staff and how led the report as a
subcommittee it makes sense that that
would be the reason there I
second
um my concern with not mentioning Senate
Bill 76 is that it be used as as
indirectly or directly as a support for
Senate Bill 588 which we not spe 688 688
yeah if it's specifically titled
competitive procurement process
competitive procurment are in there that
would be fine because then it can't be
used to support
so but I don't want that letter of
support be used by su line or
anybody oh that's a good point agree
good
point
agree okay so I know I know we won't
worry too much about the parliamentarian
side of it we do have an active Motion
in second but I know we're amending it
right now I believe the new motion
is support v a letter of support for
competitive
procurement
in line with our go of
mission okay motion but we do have to
make reference to the bill
though State Bill the state competitive
what we've done in the past at least for
the VMA side is we've we've referenced
the we've referenced the goals of the
bill and so it's a way to say like I
agree with the general idea of this bill
without explicitly saying I agree with
every line of text so it could be
something along those lines that we
could specifically reference it that in
general that we agreed with like the
spirit or the the goals of the bill
concept Concepts within the
bill but don't reference a bill uh now
we're saying yes reference the bill but
that not not not the specific iics of
the bill the general concepts of the
bill the spirit of the idea of the bill
you know we've done that before at least
v. for so are the specific words for the
competitive procurement process or are
we just making competitive procurement
process encompassed within the spirit of
the bill idea of the
bill so what it sounds because we've
said like eight and I'm trying to I
appreciate that so we're discussing and
voting on V providing a letter of
support through the chair for
competitive procurement
okay and and you know in support of the
goals theme idea Spirit something along
the lines of s SP
578
okay because it it was probably going to
change you know there there's going to
be amendments there's going to be things
like that yeah that's a good point right
it might but without
without the support so right now we
support it as in general as it's written
we we support the ideas of it right the
ideas of it if some of the ideas change
and and we're still sending out a letter
without knowing those changes you might
be uh I I think the sooner the Senate
gets it during their debates the better
knowing that Vala supports the concepts
of the so might I suggest we just say in
its present form
yeah then we date it yeah as introduced
as as introduced is because since
there's no other version right now yeah
we would say as
introduced so the motion you mentioned
also delegates yes so it will be
Authority so you will be authorizing the
chair Howard and staff to provide a
letter of support the competitive
procurement process in support of the
ideas in Senate Bill 578 as
introduced no reason for another meeting
I I say competitive procurement process
so I'll
okay so there is a motion to authorize
the chair Howard shafferman and the
Virginia Department of energy staff to
provide a letter of support on the
competitive procurement process in
support of the ideas in Senate Bill 578
as
introduced
I does that bite us at all anybody feel
I feel pretty comfortable with
that all right we have we have a motion
we have a second all in favor I I need
to abstain as based on my company could
potentially benefit from it so on the
record thank you forting
that abstaining for voting any opposed
okay motion carries we'll write that
letter um so again what I
would what I would ask is the Department
of energy staff if you could at least
throw a draft together looking at our
since we previously referenced kind of
like what's in our work plan and what's
in kind of the white paper Etc if you
want to at least kind of Cobble together
a first draft um and then Howard and I
can fix that
fantastic and when do you contemplate
presenting the letter Friday
B there's not a house bill which bills
Friday's I mean are we P like there need
to be a complimentary bill on the house
time right for this to really no I mean
there there's there's no need to have a
patron bill doesn't have to have one
it'll just go over you know once the
Senate it just means that the Senate
could you know if it's a Senate Bill the
Senate could kill it and it doesn't go
to the house for consideration or
anything like that it's just dumb but as
long as it carries through the Senate
and then it'll get passed over during
cross during a crossover so there's
there's no need for everything to have a
compain bill but am I right too that
even if it doesn't make it through this
process then the the governor has time
at the end to also then submit with
enough support he could like that's what
he did last year well the other thing
too is because we're saying we support
the ideas and the theme or the the
spirit of this bill kind of whatever
happens to the bill is irrelevant
because we're supporting the spirit of
the
bill as introduced as introduced as
introduced um Al anything else you want
to cover on
the nope update I mean like I said there
80 bills I think
there's 60 when you combine the house
senate versions or the more than one
version
um at least 60 six at least 60 unique
bills I that and we
don't don't have a detailed analysis of
them
okay all right um turning it over then
to the staff or Department update can
you share our sides please y thank
you Ken you want to do the SMART power
oh wait a minute the slides are up I'm
not sure what the order
is just you just want to go to slide
four because that's what actually be
five just go slide
six and then from current
slide
is that
blank it's I think it's just there's a
lag time usually so just wait so I don't
know why it's not all right hold up
we're having PowerPoint
issues
waiting Chris do you want to give us an
update on
PMP
yeah exciting times I think uh as many
of you know we received the second
shipment of monopiles uh what have now
probably been four weeks ago that went
very well uh first deliv went well is
but you know you can just see labor and
and our partners getting more
comfortable and familiar with moving
large monopiles um we we are excited
that the project from a construction
perspective we're making you know major
headwinds and and we're
not overcoming challenges and not having
heads um but what I'm trying to get
to is by Midsummer um we will have
completed the installation of all of the
um piles and that has been obviously uh
there's been some feedback from
surrounding uh Waterfront communities
sense that sound based on either cloud
cover or time of day I don't know but it
can travel um we will be done with over
1300 piles having been installed there
at
p&t uh hopefully Midsummer so we're
tracking very well and obviously trying
to be responsive to the community uh
because again depending on cloud cover
and just how the sound travels it can
obviously be a nuisance and I understand
we can hear it down here sometimes so um
but ultimately the project is going real
well excited that um you know there'll
be some different cargo it's obviously
been monopiles up to this point we
expect there to be um additional like
transition pieces and maybe some other
pieces showing up here in the spring so
again um think about the marketing
aspect and gaining that
exposure definitely everybody that's
been involved in supply chain offro wind
venders and and being able to push these
images out and and just gain you know
that exposure that we're doing in virgin
it's real it's it's no longer being
talked about and conceptually proposed
and researched and studied we're moving
components here in Virginia that work is
happening and so uh I think come May
there gonna be a lot of big steel pieces
there at PMT um when we begin the
outload of the SE Val project at that
point so um no it's it's definitely
moving along very nicely and it's
exciting to see the work actually
happening so more to come but uh if
anyone wants to tour or has additional
questions offline feel free to reach out
obviously we we want to be open and
engaged to uh our colleagues and
stakeholders and to the Val board so you
know the latest and greatest that's
happening there
at have we got technology fixed good
go we filled
the I love it we
get there good all right um smart power
you all know partnership between North
Carolina Maryland and
Virginia in January of last year enal
released their National supply chain
road map um they're going on to do a
regional road map for these three states
and
Delaware and we've had meetings already
they've got a basic plan of action
inight what they're going to look
at and the report will be done in 2025
hopefully it'll be useful for everyone
involved how much more say than that
another slide yeah you got another slide
buddy that's Bas yeah
y documented narrative it's your
documented narrative yeah and you know
the one one thing about this to keep in
mind is this concept of the you know the
regional Workforce and supply chain Gap
analysis and road map uh was born before
the economic
headwinds hit really
hard um and so I don't know that that's
really affecting what they look at they
still look at the same things you know
do you have the right Workforce and if
not how are the gaps are going to be
filled and hopefully it'll still
validate um that this region the central
Atlantic
region um these three states in
particular
um
will it will
demonstrate that it's bigger than just
the SE Val commercial project and even
the aeng grid project that it's bigger
than that and make us look better
compared to the much
larger um investment and incentive wise
uh Regional groups north of us Northeast
of New England is Delaware actually
considering is their governor going to
join the mou to for smart power are they
just participating or how
there's been no discussion of adding
them to it um they're putting some
resources in it and they have some some
resources I did notice from Matt's slide
just to point out that Maryland is
looking for eight gws North Carolina is
looking for eight gws and we're still at
5.2 yes need to
be well um one one item in the news
summary you got I'll just yes mention
that and come back um we do a weekly
analysis team mostly Ryan
and Larry when he can help um of
gathering up all the news reports we can
find about offshore win in the supply
chain and we just put in a couple of
months worth here and at the end uh one
thing that I don't think it's been in
the news yet but boam is setting setting
up
meetings with the um Central Atlantic
states um regarding uh a new lease o
Central Atlantic lease opportunity a
second one and no doubt that is partly
to appease Maryland and Delaware who are
very upset with the final wind energy
areas where you know there's limited
number and size I don't think n North
Carolina was thrilled but they didn't
they weren't as vociferous about they
three potential yeah they're they've got
they share us and two others better
situation um so just so you know that
that's in there near the end I don't
think it's made the um any news reports
yet and I have talked to B about it and
the good news is um it's not like did
they just start over like from scratch
like essentially where Virginia has
landed what is good for Virginia and I
say that explicitly because kind of
where we are is good for Virginia when
you consider all the things so DOD
commercial shipping fishing offshore win
all the things so it's not like we're
going to have to refight that fight um
at least off our Coast so I throw that
out there just for a
perspective can you go back one
slide yeah um the the bullet creating
new Workforce training centers um is
that something that the smart power
group is looking into um hopefully that
training center is located in
HS that was one of the things the
national Supply Chain study did um the
regional study I I haven't heard any
mention of creating anything it's more G
be looking at identifying
training what's happening in
E how we can
one Center but it might be multiple c
and e you'd probably know best though I
guess my question because it's part of
the bigger Workforce discussion we're
having in Virginia is what is the
current capacity of the training centers
and are they both right because one of
the concerns with what's going on in the
bigger supply chain or the bigger
Workforce picture too is everyone wants
a training center to train on everything
and we have lots of training centers
that they're empty and so it's like
perspective of it is it a training
capacity issue or is it a butts and
seats issue but and seats yeah marketing
marketing yeah and they're they're the
folks who are doing the study um are
very cognizant of that that it's a
really tough chicken or egg proposition
about when to do this and um you have to
have the jobs but you also can't get
caught with your pants down if some huge
announcement comes along you don't have
you know you're starting from scratch
right so they're they're they're going
to be looking for that happy medium and
that's gonna be hard and one of the
leads on the enal team is George Hagman
you know so he's very you know well
educated about this region and so I
think he still in Virginia or did he is
yes right
on
the it'sing give it a sec next
slide
oh you have to leave the room again will
yeah you gave us the hand out we could
we're going the next topic is the D yeah
yeah oh
um
yes well I'll just mention that uh one
of the next next steps from
that that meeting uh believe it or
not
um
included the the meeting with there's
two things really with the uh DEA the
Danish energy
agency um one they're going to reach out
to you Chris Nick that you may already
have um he's he would like to in the
late February I believe it is 2
28th um they're director general of that
agency um and we have a anou with the EA
um to collaborate on things offshore
wind and supply chain um I've had an
ongoing relationship for several years
now and they've visited before their
Ambassador visited once um and this will
be a a third in-person visit and they
would like to um see the Mt fair wind
Landing um if possible or at least have
a meeting maybe in that environment
where they can uh and then they're on
their way back to DC stop in Richmond
and have a opportunity to meet with um
our director the staff U maybe somebody
from the governor's office catch one of
them uh and pin them down to a day right
now everybody's clear because it's
February 28th but when it gets there
we'll we'll see is that a hard
date that's just what they said this
point because I know Dominion is
planning a um a offshore or SE Val
supplier meeting on the 28th possibly
the 27th for like supply chain all that
F stuff and they want to meet with the
minion specifically also so I all
coordinated with them but just there
there's an event being planned which
probably a lot of their people are going
to be there but I'm sure it's so might I
think this event slide in 27 I don't
know I'm speculating here and Nick could
change the date that that was what they
were looking at when we talked to him um
just a few days ago has he reset to you
already Yes okay so he had changed it as
of then just the whole day yeah time to
be determined right
um we also met with them we requested
their support on some of the issues
regarding
um Power of
take and they of course have a different
experience and a different environment
in Europe but uh they invited
orad and uh uh an old friend of the
Commonwealth who's now at orad A's from
fromy joined
that call
and Howard you you were able to join
that and they didn't really unveil the
Silver Bullet for us um they they gave
us some more Nuance maybe to consider um
and one example there was that some of
the large energy consumers the large
Googles and others like them who have
these commitments to reach zero carbon
by some nearby date on that one of the
issues is now to be able to say um it
makes that commitment more valuable and
more competitive if you're competing
against others doing the same thing to
say we've matched our consumption
247 so the wind component would have
that time stamp of later in the
day um and maybe into the evening I
don't know exactly what how you would
calculate that but we obviously we've
all heard that solar and wind are
complimentary because wind gets stronger
when solar production declines later in
the day so that was something that they
thought might be a an advantage to
um get us get a a PPA sold to one of
those kinds of companies that uses a ton
of power and has goals to make it 100%
uh
renewable and Howard did you anything
else strike you from that session that
you thought was new or helpful I think
that was an interesting point I didn't
hear anything else particular you can
transfer in yeah because they don't
really face the same situation we they
they usually have a clear path to Market
for the power because they're bidding on
projects where there's a um like
situation like senville 578 who try to
create in
Virginia next
slide see yeah I think we already talked
about that one DC area update yeah we
covered that one sale notice okay
buffering oh here we go
and this you all know about
yep that should be
it want to close room than
so um one of the things I'll throw out
there that's related and I think Laura
knows more about this too so there's
going to be a meeting coming up I think
in March sometime by Marco talking about
the trans Mission side of um of offshore
wind it's an offshore wind transmission
Summit and it's state federal agencies I
think Coast Guard's going I'm going some
of the select kind of off Wi folks
because another thing that we haven't
really talked about but I'll least throw
out there that is in discussions is this
idea of getting a better handle on table
rounding and so instead of having an
ocean floor of spaghetti you know to
really have some rhy and common sense
and I know we've had conversations with
the Coast Guard about this the Army
Corps Etc um so I thought that was
interesting that Marco's doing that on
I'm planning to go um to be involved in
that and it's a kind of a part two
because they did one least over a year
ago
Workshop something
looking op
translation
and it makes sense because we we've had
similar meetings with um RVA 757
connects which is like a group that's
trying to bring sub Telecom and point
being is when we think of the ocean
floor and this goes back to the bigger
com context of like what's good for
Virginia as a whole is there's so much
going on that and of no one's talking of
course you know everyone kind of doing
their Silo thing but you got the Telecom
people that want to come lay tabl to
store you got offer wind wants to lay on
tables to store you got Anchorage that
want to be put up you got D nods
disposal areas and kind of realizing
like you know probably good if everybody
just kind of got together talked about
what's going on in the ocean floor and
making sense of I mean it's not an
uncommon concept for at least pipelines
to have kind of common rideways but kind
of like in
general some sort of routing that makes
sense it makes a lot of sense and and
for the Kittyhawk project specifically
we had to deconflict our cables with
global links that was bringing so that's
just a perfect good local example of the
necessity of being able to know what's
going on know who you have to work with
and then don't forget that you know in
our situation for the Kittyhawk
situation is that because the dod has
stuff in the waters and they can't tell
us anybody any developer what's in the
water and where therefore a developer
cannot design around it therefore there
is a a path of no-o because we cannot a
design around what we can't know where
it is so um but it it's definitely just
Global inks and and AER would be a good
example of that well even even Dominion
we had to do it we're part of a big
to-do right with Dominion export cables
going across the three Telecom cables
right in front of the sea line and so it
was impacting the actual available
beeter two vessels and I I'll give a
shout out to Dominion after like the
third round of engineering they came up
with the design that would work for
protecting their cables but also
reducing the footprint of these
Crossings and so this was that's what
really was kind of like the impetus you
know and and you know Kittyhawk to think
about we need more people kind of
talking through what's going on down
there instead of just everybody coming
and just doing St just a
reminder Marco ocean data portal does
have a whole on the some table yeah and
um and if if you think of anything that
you've heard about or it's a proposal
you know let the cortal team
know like that added and I know Willie
you've done that several times and
they're pretty quick I love Marco I send
it to
everybody about yeah I just thought um I
attended a really interesting uh meeting
yesterday so for the first time Coast
Guard District Five yesterday so
District 5 is New York New Jersey to the
border of North Carolina South Carolina
did um an all day Symposium where they
brought all the developers between New
York and South Carolina in um to talk
through um you know search and rescue
and sea lanes and Fairways and you know
just sort of the Soup To Nuts um of
offshore wind and Coast Guard um
relationships and then each project gave
an update as well so it was a really it
there were there were a lot of sort of
you know light bulbs that off you could
kind of see them going off across the
room U mostly uh the uh Maritime
managers for each of the each of the
projects but it was a really good um
sort of real collection of of brain
power and you know what we're seeing is
that in district one which is New
England is basically beta testing
everything that the Coast Guard ising
and then we're seeing it come down here
to District Five and you know around the
gulf and seven and then you know
California so but it was a really good
opportunity they had a huge crosssection
of the Coast Guard there of all the
various um departments so it was a
really excellent event
yesterday very good so where the part
about other business closing remarks
I'll say there's no public comment
signed up so we can omit that um any
other business or closing remarks by the
members of the board one question for
the Department um I I think I hear
there's legislation to regulate data
centers and one of their main arguments
is their excessive energy usage does the
department have any is that one of your
bills that you're looking at it is okay
and okay do you need anything from
us can't think of anything I don't think
so there's how many bills are there on
on just that on data centers oh I full
enough
enough yeah I I I don't know and I don't
know uh yet what the administration's
position is on those various
bills good good question thanks for
asking main arguments is oh it's
excessive energy
use okay bring on more
energy I think it's worth I'll I'll say
what's worth it because I asked my own
members at BMA to do this like hey if
you see something interesting you know
feel free to send it around and then the
the staff team can kind of compile with
their legislative updates and like send
it to the group for stuff to be aware of
because I don't U at all assume to see
everything know everything understand
everything with the impact so it's kind
of asking for if there's something you
all think is remotely interesting that
maybe we should at least look at send it
to the team um and they can compile I'm
not saying we're going to do anything on
it we might but at least it should be
lagged any other comments from the team
question do we have a date for the next
week
I I think we set all four but what's the
upcoming days pull it up I don't know if
we have a location but we have a April
something
yeah third we is
it looks like April
teach my own
calendar I
didn't I will say and I know the non
Hampton Road spokes Will
Rejoice um of our me as per the bylaws
one of our meetings does have to be
enrichment so um we can figure out what
that's going to be that looks like maybe
because I know some of the other ones I
get pinched between meetings and I need
to be
here
perhaps I tell you what if something
doesn't come up in the next few weeks at
least on the calendar if you guys could
just make a note to we can determine
that the next few weeks then P the rec I
am sensitive to it because I know could
always do virtual too we could do
virtual we're allowed to have one
virtual meeting a year love the two 25%
or two whichever is more yeah we got a
more liberal interpretation from the
office of return J so keep one for
annual reports stuff in case there's any
emergencies and then just use the other
one that your that's a good
advisor excellent any other
comments okay well I thought this was a
good meeting so let me go over the do
outs real quick so we did vote and
approve that we're going to provide a
letter of support for Ariel and Jerry is
going to work with the staff to do a
first draft um and then send it over for
Signature you all have entrusted me to
take care of that um and then we've also
voted and approved the letter of support
for the spirit
of SB 578 as introduced um in accordance
with like I said in some of the things
we've already submitted
um the team is the staff is going to put
together first draft to send over um for
me and Howard to look at um and then
hopefully get that out the door sooner
than
later meeting's
turn greaters good job thank you
know didn't