um let's call this meeting to order
first of all welcome for all our guests
my name is Will Fu I'm the uh senior
vice president for the Virginia Maritime
Association but in this capacity I'm
also chair of the Virginia offshore wind
Development Authority so thanks for
being here um let's go into the approval
of the previous minutes hopefully you
all had a chance to look at that uh can
I get a motion to accept the previous
minutes
so moved thank you can I get a
second second thank you all in favor of
approving the
minutes I I thank you
opposed okay the minutes are accepted um
I know it's been some time since we
we've had a good update
from actually so Ken that we're supposed
to have dominion here with John Larson
uh John are you with us this
morning perfect um so it's been a while
since we we've had a good update so we
wanted to make sure that uh we invited
our our friends at Dominion Energy to
come and brief out on uh the seal
project and where we are and then after
that we'll also hear an update on
Portsmith Marine Terminal um so so John
I'm going to turn this over to you um if
you'd like to share your screen or
whatever you feel appropriate um tell us
where we are
let me get this pulled up
here right so I need to stop sharing
correct
yes right John you should have
control all right let's see
here all right there we go can everyone
see the
screen see it is all right so uh just uh
quick uh kind of
Interest out here uh we see a lot of
marine life and we were out last year
with ches PE climate Action Network and
some some other groups and uh just after
we Departed the turban we had a 14 foot
great white shark show up so of course
our new safety moment is don't fall in
as you're transitioning from from the
CTV to the uh to the ladder climbing up
the tower but uh pretty awesome site and
I I hate that literally we had just
pulled away and missed that but uh uh
really cool photograph one of the
technicians took um kind of moving on a
little bit more to the business side of
things many of you seen a
graphic uh of you know the wind energy
area or the wind energy area and the uh
export cable corridors but I've SED
using this a little bit it shows you the
monopiles uh and that sequence that will
happen but more importantly it also
gives you a good understanding of how
the turbines are connected to each
substation so the substations are the
the three yellow uh locations within the
wind energy area and you can see they're
in strings typically of five turbines uh
that go to each substation and really
they're just strung together with that
uh inner array cable which is a smaller
cable about 7 in in diameter with the
three conductors and uh fiber in it that
many of you have seen me carry around so
uh just to give you an impression of how
that works and of course we will begin
working in the Northwest Quadrant will
be the first monopiles and and where
they're installed as we go forward on
the
project um quick video here the
monopiles coming in many of you have
seen these uh or
had uh joined in the uh the events that
we've
had but this gives you a pretty good
idea uh if you haven't seen them uh the
size sorry uh the size of those um keep
keep in mind the diameter of that's
about the length of a school bus on uh
the monopol so pretty significant uh as
we go and I think uh we see you know
deliveries continuing to come over and
that will will go on through uh the
monopol season next year which we expect
to conclude uh in the August time frame
of next year uh is the current plan um
transition pieces so starting in the
next month here we'll begin to see some
transition pieces arriving and that of
course is uh really if you think about
it and I'll use an analogy almost like a
goof tea right this is a piece that fits
down over the top of the monopile
foundation and has a flange on the top
of it or a surface on which the uh base
of the wind turban Tower attaches it's
the point of Ingress and E ress but in
the upper parts of that transition piece
you see on the left uh are some
structures really about two levels which
there's a lot of switch guard gear and
control equipment connection points
electrically located there certainly uh
well out of the water and those types of
things but this just gives you an idea
those transition pieces just like the
monopiles are constructed of rolled
steel that's uh welded together um and
then after those sections are there you
can see the flange being lifted and
attached on top here for one of our
monopiles but uh expect to start seeing
those arrive here soon and the first
installation of transition pieces uh
should occur uh starting in the August
September time
frame uh cable uh well in into the
export cable
fabrication um just to help calibrate
everyone it's the distance from New York
City to Richmond coming down I
95 and so for the export cable there
will be two of these large spools for
each one of the nine conductors that
will come ashore so you there'll be a
splice in the middle uh to give you an
idea of of how that will work but uh
pretty massive and pretty heavy uh
pieces of uh cable here on these spools
as you see them
um also uh we've got the three offshore
substations you can see here in this
graphic U uh kind of below and to the
right of the monopiles that are being
staged uh right now they're undergoing
the final installation of the electrical
equipment inside uh many of you have
heard me talk about some of the
components large HVAC units and if you
think about it this is really the the
same as a 230 KV substation that you
would see located uh driving around town
um today on the land is just uh cables
come up from the bottom you've got gas
insulated uh low
voltage uh equipment at 66 KV goes to
the Transformers and steps up to 230 KV
there's of course a number of switches
and uh capacitor Banks and those types
of things to help manage uh the energy
uh flow as we go through there and then
that connects to the export cable and of
course there's a helipad on top for the
men and women who will be working on
that uh to readily access uh the
substations um right now we're pretty
busy working uh on on the on Shore so we
completed tree felling uh last week uh
very important aspect uh of the project
uh as as we go forward because we needed
complete the tree felling before uh the
bat pupping season came about from an
environmental perspective uh also uh we
are working very diligently at State
Military
Reservation and also at Fentress
substation to expand that the Fentress
substation and of course at State
Military Reservation uh extending a pipe
about 1,600 ft from the parking lot at
at SMR there out to off sure uh and then
once that's installed a uh hdp liner is
put in place and then that export cable
will be pulled in through that uh then
there'll be a
transition um transition Bay where we'll
go to the onshore underground cable just
behind where those offshore cables are
pulled in at
SMR um we continue to see um you know
good progress and and we're pleased with
the progress
uh as we look at it excluding the wind
turban installation vessel caribdis and
the service Ops vessel being constructed
right now we've got about 700 million in
US spend a low north of 500 of that has
been spent in Virginia and of course
we're seeing 800 people that have uh
worked on the project in Virginia and a
little over 650 of those being from the
Hampton Roads area and of course a lot
of that is tied to
permitting um and getting the various
approvals at state federal and local
levels as well as the port
infrastructure upgrade and and frankly
the manufacturer of those piles uh at uh
the pre-cast concrete
facility um uh down in that area as well
so uh lot of good opportunities there
and we're very pleased with that we do
expect uh workers to peek out uh during
the construction phase at around 1,600
and I I don't think we'll have any
trouble hitting that and if we look at
it total we could well exceed that as we
go
forward um one thing I'll note uh
yesterday uh day before yesterday is
pretty big day caribdis launched um for
the final installation of equipment down
in Brownsville uh really excited about
uh the progress that um crius is making
and it'll be completed in time to
support the the seal project schedule uh
and it will be home p in Hampton Roads
and have a obviously Being John Zach uh
we also have a US crew on that as well
so uh good progress moving ahead uh with
respect to that to support not only the
SE Val project but other projects in the
industry and we continue to remain on
schedule and on budget uh as far as the
project goes and just really fortunate
to have the opportunity to have hedged
out a lot of our commodity risk at a
great time before uh we saw the
inflation and Supply Chain shortfalls by
locking our contracts in early so with
that I'll I'll stop and ask if there are
any questions or or any insights anyone
might
have so John are we still on track for
um I think the the construction is going
to start here in a few weeks right the
first mon that's correct um early may
you know of course that's all As We Know
weather dependent for Transit of vessels
and uh actually at the construction site
but yes we're still on track for uh the
start of the monopol season coming up
here and actually very excited and
looking forward to
that so any questions from the the V of
board members for
John uh Jim here a question please
yes uh I was just curious about the uh
the public affairs aspect of this the
communication with you know various
levels of the population and you know
City even Federal governments um I was
just wondering if there's a dedicated
effort to I guess not to sensationalize
but to characterize all the success that
the Commonwealth and obviously Dominion
Energy had
had yeah yeah there is you know we in in
fact I alen I'll reference you I was at
an event last week talking about the
project uh uh that Sierra Club helped uh
support um they in in Virginia Beach uh
and we've actually had across the board
in the area uh between the transmission
Route as well as just in general for
supply chain and Workforce Development
uh if you add all of those up it's over
2,000 meetings that we've had in the
area there and of course that's not
really counting you know working on the
local state and federal approvals and
you know we do press releases and
Outreach uh frequently we just did the
one on caribas since that just launched
the water uh and those types of things
so it's a pretty concerted effort and uh
program that we have across the board to
continue and and you'll see us uh you
know certainly U we'll be having um
filming the first monopiles going in and
those types of things and uh involving
press as we go out for future
tours okay uh thank you John and I was
also wondering if we could get a copy of
this uh
presentation sure I'll be glad to share
that um Ken I'll just shoot that over to
you afterwards sounds good all right
thank you John yep you're
welcome thank you and recognizing that
we are in our in our all virtual meeting
um if any other board members if you
have a question if you'd use the raise
your hand function
ien uh you're muted
I still
muted I think you may need to just
adjust your uh speaker
from the volume button down on your uh
laptop let's see if that
works all right we'll come back to e uh
any other questions from the
board okay
any luck
Eileen we'll see
okay all right well we'll we'll come
back we know how to get a hold of John
um all right so maybe she could put
maybe she could put her question or
comment in the chat
window yeah if You'
like what's up
Chris I want to raise my hand sorry yeah
um give eile I have a question and so
hopefully byy a little time uh John
would you mind providing uh just a quick
update or a couple comments on how the
operation uh facility there at Fairwinds
Landing is proceeding and and just to
see how that project's moving
forward yeah hang on I was stopping my
share there Chris there we go um yeah so
we
uh we have actually as you know
um done the agreement with with uh bacor
and Mig grou for that facility it's been
designed and I think they're working on
trying to get all the final approvals
buttoned up and we look forward to
getting the construction started on that
soon um you know just with the timeline
of doing that our uh Marine coordination
and control center will actually
initially be in our Nori office up on
our third floor there a little area and
then we'll transition that over but I
would expect you'll see some activity
kicking off more so on the ground of
after demolition where we'll be moving
forward towards uh getting foundations
and getting a facility
erected that's great thanks
Sean yeah I know um one of the
interesting things as we kind of get
ready for operations um lots of work
still going on with the with the team at
Dominion kind of now working on you know
navigation plans for vessels and subsy
cable Crossing so uh still a good chunk
of work to do but I know the Dominion
team is working quite hard with a lot of
the stakeholders here on the call uh to
make sure that that we're ready to go um
Howard do you have a
question yeah I was just going to convey
what eileene put in the chat window
which is regarding the slide on jobs it
said jobs at POV are there additional
jobs associated with the offshore
Construction
so um the specific kind of case study
was Port of Virginia on um the right
hand side of that slide that table was
for overall and as we began mobilizing
for the onshore work and we mobilize for
the offshore activity you'll see those
numbers go up we're collecting those
quarterly from our um you know partners
and their subcontractor so we should be
getting quarterly updates on that as we
go along so you would expect to see the
traditional increase as a project up
until it hits uh you know the maximum
activity on the project then as you
start closing the project out we'll see
that
decline yeah and I would say even from
just expectation management to your
point John and most folks who have been
involved in any type of large you know
Mega project big spike in construction
activity for a period of time few years
and then to your point uh numbers settle
off sometimes significantly with
long-term uh omm jobs so some something
for the community to consider when
they're thinking about how many
construction jobs come into an area and
then become transient as projects kind
of move up and down a coast right and
then how many of those permanent
long-term on andm jobs kind of remain in
the
area so yeah most of the jobs really
affiliated with construction right now
are frankly um at the Port right for
loading and unloading equipment and um
and that type of activity outside of the
port infrastructure uh we're really
still at that that staging uh and
pre-assembly aspect of the project here
soon to mobilize with foundations the
foundations honestly don't have much
preassembly it's more of staging right
it's it's a big piece of
pipe
yeah all right I let's try again I see
your hand up but try to mute
there you got to hit the unmute button I
see it's showing unmuted or muted excuse
me
no cannot hear
you all right we'll figure it
out okay
um e let's do that let's follow up we
can follow up with with John and stuff
like that um okay moving forward we've
also asked uh Pat kinsman's the vice
president of offshore wi for the port
authority also to give an update on kind
of where we are with PMT you know you
heard how close we are to construction
of the actual project so now kind of
moving forward
here go ahead
Pat okay can you hear me now we can yes
okay great so uh let me start with the
right slide um so hey team great to see
all of you um just start off with kind
of broad update you can see the project
Partners listed on the top really so
port with Jacobs and our subsidiary
terminal operator vit operating for us
supported by mafa Nichol as the engineer
record uh and scansa doing the major
work um to do the port upgrade uh we're
uh again 100% complete in terms of
design of course and now it's both both
for the port upgrade and the dredging uh
dredging is complete and the port
upgrade is sitting about 70% complete
and um at the at this uh this end of
this week Friday we're
anticipating um substantial completion
on the second milestone uh which uh
again is like rounding and for a
baseball analogy rounding third and
coming into home in time to meet um what
is a dynamic uh SE valve Dominion vessel
schedule with all the components you
know coming from uh from overseas so
it's really uh really exciting going
just speaking briefly on the picture
again great aeriel if you look in the
upper left and if you can see my cursor
right that is the monopile warf so again
we went up to get the right bearing
capacity across the terminal went up
about 2 feet with um layers of geog grid
and dense graded aggregate uh sections
of the old Warf and what you see in the
foreground here is really the completion
of Milestone to so dense graded
aggregate is being pushed over a pile
supported
Warf uh and then the piles that you see
in the water here that's all the third
and final Milestone uh due uh due in
January so big picture uh just about to
wrap up Milestone two uh and Milestone 3
the whole project slightly ahead of
schedule currently scheduled to be
complet in early January of 25 so
exciting uh I don't know where the last
two plus years have gone but it's a
flurry of final design activity uh and a
lot of construction so um what this just
shows you is just a quick overlay so the
it's the Dominion seow schedule with um
the construction piece uh kind of laid
on top so on the left Port contractor
selected the first mil milestone for
monopiles the second milestone for TPS
which is just a Warf and the final uh
Milestone here showing again that
requirement in about mid 25 again we're
on schedule for an early 25 completion
and then in the gray is the monopile
installation windows that uh Dominion
haves and as John says uh the Orion uh
is uh in route from its last mission off
the coast of Scotland should arrive here
end of April and uh you know early May
it'll start moving offshore to uh do
some installation off to the left a view
of the 28 monopiles that we have on
Terminal now eight more uh arrive this
morning and viit is in the process of
doing H the fifth vessel unload so um
we've learned quite a bit um from Vessel
number one to now the fifth vessel and
uh later on here in about another uh
week well inside the next week we'll
have the second component coming on on
Terminal which is pin piles for the
offshore substations so again a
different component coming on Terminal
that's great uh picture on the right
again um that was a motor vessel
Sunshine delivery the picture is taken
at Sunset and uh that monopile on the
right is in the Cradle swap area where
the shipping cradles come off and then
viit moves it into final place of rest
on the termin
and then one more view uh which just a
different look on that lower right
corner the monopile warf the
construction activity proceeding down
the warf and the kind of the Upland
sight civil uh happening uh as well so a
rapid fire update stand by for any
questions you
have thank you Pat I think that there's
a vessel that came in this morning
correct for more model yeah fantastic um
I encourage all of you if you haven't
had a chance well do it safely I know I
know Pat will agree with me do it safely
but if you get a chance to pull over
somewhere safely and see these miles
they're fantastic the scale is is
incredible um and so that's going to be
a lot of activity you know something we
take for granted but we're introducing
something new into our Maritime uh
transportation system here um but great
teams have been working on it I say one
of the things that we do incredibly well
here in the Commonwealth is
collaboration especially in the maritime
space so this is all Pat and Chris will
tell you and John the countless meetings
with different stakeholders that have
gone into it I know I myself have sat in
several meetings multiple meetings that
just had to do with the vessel that's
carrying these out kind of going inbound
and outbound so so much coordination to
make sure that it's done smoothly in the
context of everything else we do um so
any other questions from the board for
Pat
use the raise your hand function please
all right Jim I see
you gotta unmute yourself
and there all right I'm kind of fumbling
here on the functionality
sorry was this okay yes you're doing
great yeah here's a question not not so
much for for Pat but just you know
sitting here by the way just amazing the
work that's been completed incredible
but do do we have a figure of how much
the
Commonwealth over the last you know 10
years or so has invested in this
offshore
wind um you know from from the beginning
you know uh how how much has been
invested or allocated taxpayer money in
all
this you know we talk about the you know
the benefits of hiring a new Workforce
and what money goes into the econ eony
but I'm just curious
separately uh from the Commonwealth's
perspective what how much taxpayer money
has gone
into does anybody have a guess what it
is this is Chris um so do you want me to
jump in
Pat okay thumbs up um to answer that
question you know I think I'll give you
the the port of Virginia answer um and
obviously Department of energy can chime
in if they have a figure but um in
Governor Norm's budget um in blanking on
the budget year I I want to say it was
20 or 21 but there was a $40
million um um fund established to
support the development of a supply
chain for staging manufacturing and
offshore window related functions to
take place at Portsmouth Marine Terminal
um if you recall at that point um
uh you know and this is obviously uh you
know during the pandemic um we're
repositioning PMT to bring in uh this
new industry and so we were able to
leverage uh some of those funds in
support of a PID Grant application
through merad which falls under the
department US Department of
Transportation and so if you recall um
we were a recipient of a 20 plus million
doll pit Grant um which uh there were
state funds FS as well as federal funds
and then um the significant portion of
the Dominion investment there at pouth
Marine Terminal um yeah ties back to
Dominion so if you think about the up
fitment that's taking place as we speak
Jim and all of those construction
projects that Pat is outlined um The
Lion Share of that investment is is is
is being made uh by our partners there
at Dominion
Energy uh I guess what what I'm sort of
thinking I'm probably off track here
Will but you know the all the
contractors the organizations involved
the companies involved have been good
stewards of the taxpayers money I mean
that you know I I don't have the figures
but just look what has been accomplished
you know what the Commonwealth has
invested and what has been accomplished
with it so far it's uh it's incredible
and it's kind of back to my point in in
John's presentation you know do we not
the board but does the Commonwealth get
credit for in all the you know players
in this get credit for being good
stewards of the taxpayers money and
making good good use of it uh a
rhetorical question but but you I give
you an observation and maybe will has
and I think there are probably a number
of folks on the call but I think when
you go outside of Virginia and you look
at what we're doing here within the
Commonwealth and what Dominion's doing
with the seal project it truly is being
recognized as a true success um and to
Will's point that success doesn't happen
without a tremendous amount of
collaboration stakeholder engagement um
and more importantly in a environment
which we find ourselves in a very high
inflation High interest rate environment
um for this type of project to still be
um on budget and moving forward is
pretty impressive so I I would say by
all means it is recognized and I think
that will uh be to the benefit of this
industry here in the Commonwealth as
future projects evaluate um this Harbor
this state to support uh this future
buildout along the east coast Y and I'll
add I'll add to that that
um again where we are where we're about
to be with the first monopile going in I
think we take for granted and an
offshore win wasn't something that just
got dreed up a few years ago you know it
was it was over a decade ago when the
governor at the time was like we we need
to get ahead of thinking about offshore
wind in the central Atlantic um and the
VMA LED an effort we're pulling in the
pilots Noah co-art Army Corps um Port
Authority vessel operators Navy NASA
everybody and sat around at Noah's
headquarters pulled out a bunch of
charts and said where should an offshore
Wind Farm go that is basically
deconflict with everything else were
doing so the current shape and location
of
seal was intentional over a decade ago
to be just out of the way of everything
else uh to where we have no conflicts
there so it is a testament of we're
about to see that that original effort
over a decade ago come to fruition here
um and it just plays nicely with
everything we're doing between lots of
stakeholders here on the call so I think
I think the Commonwealth does share the
credit and I know um everyone's working
to be good stewards and that's also why
we have good groups like the SEC to kind
of make sure that things don't get out
of control but um all things moving
forward in a in a great way I
think agree and I I think Chris's Point
sorry there's some background noise here
but uh you know being good stewards of
the commonwealths money but uh you know
the budget was created and everybody is
performing to to budget we're on time on
budget and those qualities should serve
you know this Enterprise well as wind is
expanding Ed up and down the coast you
know East or or West Coast you know the
the uh the performance uh is been has
been pretty
impressive thank
you any other questions for Pat from the
board okay well thank you Pat all the
great work you're doing um thanks
busy and let's see so now we're going to
go into updates from the of board
members on various work
initiatives first up is our favorite
Eileen if we can get the camera to work
or the the the microphone let's try this
again
no all
right all right we'll figure that out
all right I'm gonna I'm gonna keep going
all right so next to supply chain
updates uh Matt Smith with the alliance
unfortunately wasn't able to join um
I'll tell you that we're we're kind of
at an interesting point where we're
still seeing more interest from the
supply chain come to locate here there's
still a lot of efforts to land uh
independent manufacturers associated
with the offshore wind space and um that
that's a really exciting thing and the
neat thing is some of these efforts are
independent of any one particular
project and what that means is that the
industry is still seeing Virginia as a
viable place to do business because of
where it is and what it has to offer
when you think about um infrastructure
uh supply chain connectivity Workforce
Etc so lots of Manufacturers continuing
to come and look to be here as well as
adjacent offshore wind companies so um
Chris I don't know if you have anything
you might want to throw throw in there
on that about kind of what's going on
with our Virginia supply chain I will
say the V P has done a great job as well
with the offshore wi grant program you
guys heard about that uh for
manufacturers to kind of move the
adjacent space we have had two
applications to date part of that and um
those were both awarded grant money to
move into more offshore wind space uh
one was a fabricator here in town and
the other was a bolt manufacturer up in
the Richmond area and we just received a
third application as well uh for another
company to look to take advantage of
those those grants so that's that's
going well and and companies are taking
advantage of it um Chris I don't know if
you had anything you wanted to add or
even Jo Elsa after I would Echo what you
were I mean that's uh just to share that
information I appreciate because you're
right what the bdp is doing is
tremendous I would just uh dovetail um
it's adjacent um type of effort that
took place over the past uh year and a
half but I can and will please chime in
but as we think about industrial
Waterfront utilization of industrial
Waterfront and how obviously offshore
wind correlates or adds to that um there
is obviously a need uh for the highest
and best use of our scarce industrial
Waterfront when I think of all the
waterways here in the hampter H Harbor
and throughout the Commonwealth uh will
and I both participated and VMA was a
pivotal piece of this and will again
chime in I think you know where I'm
going with the Chesapeake industrial
Waterfront uh study that was recently
completed and adopted by the city
council which really took a targeted
approach on on highest and best use
along with the importance of resiliency
um offshore wind and that use that
industrial uh use and supporting uh
supply chain supporting entities uh
definitely I think was part of that
study and and what the city of ches peak
was looking to implement and evaluate so
uh that's all has taken place and has
now been adopted I don't know will if
you want to add anything but I think it
does tie into the whole supply chain
discussion and having property and sites
ready and capable to support the supply
chain yeah um on that study what's kind
of interesting is is I'll say that while
the big sites that we have when you
think of PMT you know and I know there's
still there's still some options there
for companies um for for Chris and the
team to evaluate but Fairwinds Landing
filling up a lot of these previous Prime
spots that we considered uh but there's
also a lot of great value for other
sites that are smaller maybe don't need
as much water um and those are being
actively explored by the the
International Community as well um I
know there's two projects right now um
independently being evaluated to locate
in this area so if if all goes well
another two sites would be snapped up uh
for for long-term manufacturing jobs
which is was pretty incredible and and
Jo ala I don't know if there's anything
you wanted to add from what you're
seeing with bdp
thanks well I think you guys are between
you and Chris have covered things very
well we are continuing to have these
conversations and and really engage with
uh with the industry and suppliers and
oems um and and focused on bringing them
to Virginia we're really looking forward
to ipf um which should be a great
opportunity I know Virginia energy as
well as vedp myself will be on a couple
of um well attended panels there so
these will offer really good
opportunities for exposure for the state
um we'll be alongside of our neighbors
and um I just want to thank Virginia
energy for the for the collaboration
with that um really looking forward to
to seeing you guys
there Laura you have a question yeah
just will you mentioned um other two
sites are those in the Hampton Roads
area or are they looking you know
Eastern Shore Middle Peninsula other
places are staying right in Hampton
Roads yeah so these are two commercial
sites in Hampton Roads but to your point
um there are there are several Parcels
in the middle of peninsula you know
Eastern Shore that VP has in their
database we have shown um other
prospective clients um I know one of the
one of the major sites in Cape Charles
is is heavily underway supporting the
tunnel expansion um so we do we do make
sure that we show a nice portfolio of of
you know Greenfield and Brownfield sites
for prospective clients yeah and
hopefully compatiable with with some of
the ecotourism rural nature um that that
goes on in Middle Peninsula and Eastern
Shore but I know they're always looking
for for help economically so that's
great thank
you thank you Laura vedp is really um
really showcasing uh a fair 's Landing
as as a premier site so um just with the
135
acre breake bulk and then um the
unobstructed you know no no overhead
obstructions seems really attractive to
a lot of the companies that we're
talking
to Howard do you have a
question got to unmute yes I'm doing
that since Joe Elsa is on the screen I
just wanted to ask in Prior V meetings
we've talked a bit and Department of
energy has been involved as well about
whether there's can be an effort in the
vp's materials to highlight the the fact
that Virginia is a center for Green
energy such that if there's a large uh
entity recruiting to to locate in the
state that can be highlighted so you
know if there's there are companies with
with green energy commitments certainly
the off sh wind commitment of Virginia
is it could be really helpful to
highlight I
think absolutely thank you Howard we are
we're in the process of updating our uh
marketing collateral currently um to
reflect a more um
updated to reflect a more updated um um
version of what we're seeing in the
state I actually commented in the chat
some of the the photos that can shared
on the Virginia energy um slides were
fantastic in terms of showing the
progress and really giving folks a
visual to to really see the tangible
work that's being done um we're
absolutely open open to collaborating
and making sure that um that we're
putting value propositions out that um
that showcase Virginia's commitment to
renewable energy so the answer the short
answer is yes yes um and and so I would
just encourage uh folks to reach out to
vedp and share uh share with us any like
I said collateral photos or uh any
initiatives within your respective
organizations so that we can we can come
at this with a whole of government
approach and really um really offer a
comprehensive idea of what of what we're
doing at the state that's very helpful
thank you
excellent all right um moving over to
Kathy Kathy any updates from our R&D
efforts and thank you so much for all
the work you've done there hey uh good
morning everyone can you hear me yes yay
okay I wasn't sure if I was gonna have
the same problem as eileene it happened
to me once and I had to go back into
settings and change some things um so uh
there is an update and I'm going to hand
it off to um Ken for
that yeah Kathy had asked me yesterday
to can you all hear me yes okay um she
had asked me to look through the white
paper that was submitted with
recommendations uh in I guess
2023 and as far as I can tell the only
real updates one of the recommendations
was that we maintain our membership in
the now RDC and participate on their
some of their subcommittees uh we are
doing that we did pay for another year
of membership um and
uh various staff at Virginia energy do
sit in on the uh Technical subcommittees
and I will tell you they are really
really technical I mean just almost to
the point where I can't even follow
along um so I do my best I'll try to
report back as things happen as grants
are awarded but uh that is still
happening so Ken in in the future
because that was a recommendation from
the board if they would be able to
provide a summary of um of actions and
their participation in that that would
be really appr appreciated for the board
to hear what's going on thanks if if
possible because I know we had to sign
ndas uh to participate in the meetings
so I'm not sure how publicly available
that information is going to
be so well or Chris is there some kind
of work around that that we would be
able to get some of that information
that that was our
recommendation yeah I think that's
something we can we'll chat with the
Department of energy team and to your
point if if they're they're going there
to be representatives for the state
Andor on our behalf so I'm pretty sure
we can work that
on and they will obviously be at the uh
ipf and so there might be an opportunity
to uh huddle up with the the folks at
now RDC to see what might be possible
and can mean just connect me with
whoever the point of contact is
and I'll shoot him a note I will do that
thank
you okay any any questions for
Kathy lots of good efforts um I I will
say so recently um I was with Laura's
favorite people over at
Marco uh few weeks ago month ago
something like that up in Baltimore for
a subc cable Summit two whole days of
subc cables which is about as much fun
as you could possibly imagine um but the
good news was to kind of be there as a
as a representative of of the commercial
Maritime industry but also for V and um
I gave a presentation on stakeholder
collaboration and why it really really
really matters um when you look at
introducing subsy cables into uh a very
busy Maritime space and what was neat is
we were able to highlight you know back
to uh back to Jim's point we were able
to highlight some Virginia collaborative
leadership and afterwards I mean there
was a lot of folks from New York that
were asking a lot of questions on how we
do things down here um because they were
kind of running into situations same
thing subc cables and shipping lanes and
all kinds of things and they were like
you know hey how did you guys get around
this how did you deal with this so we
were able to kind of share some case
studies with them uh on kind of how we
have done things the Virginia way if you
will from a from a early and often
collaborative manner so those that was
that was nice to kind of be able to lend
some of that advice to our friends up
north okay
glad yeah do what yeah that's awesome
news uh and and I would only say that
you know when we put in our
recommendations um it's very helpful for
us to get feedback on those to see if
they were helpful if it's enhancing our
um our responsibilities as the as an as
the board and help us in forming any new
recommendations off of the results of
our previous recommendations so thank
you yeah and Kathy to point so Ken I'm
going to ask you and the team I see Ed
Ryan all the folks uh if we could get
some better tracking and Reporting back
um from the Department of energy kind of
on the status of some of these
recommendations to Cathy's point that we
have made up and kind of where they are
where they went you know which ones got
shot down which ones were adopted Etc so
that we can have a better visibility on
that so so thank you Kathy for bringing
that back
up okay okay
um let yes sorry Laura Laura just real
quick um since you mentioned Marco just
want to put in a plug for the
Mid-Atlantic ocean Forum which will be
May 13 through 14 in Lewis Delaware at
the Burton retreat center and I'm sure
they'll be having a session on offshore
wind so if you just go to the Marco
website um you can find information if
you're interested in registering not
sure if there'll be a virtual option but
um you know it's usually a pretty good
meeting and a good chance to hear all
aspects of ocean planning and what's
happening out there so thanks fantastic
I also failed to mention but when we
were talking about the the economic
development and supply chain portion um
it just came out last night that ipf is
going to be in uh Virginia Beach next
year so ipf 25 will be in Virginia Beach
so that's pretty interesting it could be
a great opportunity for us to Showcase I
know a few years ago when it was in
baltim or Not Baltimore um Richmond we
were able to do a good job showing up
and now it'll be even easier
so okay I see also uh Ken would you
would you like to introduce your
colleague from the Department to talk
about post session legislative updates
yes I'm gonna hand it off to rabita uh
she's one of our policy folks and she's
just going to give a brief
update thank you welcome everyone can
you hear me
yes yeah we can hear you that's great
all right um so I'll update um I'll
share the update the legislative update
for VA I'll share my screen there is not
much that happened this year for for VA
um I mean for offshore wind there are
only two bills um and both of them were
pushed to 2025
session um let me figure out how I can
shared the I think I got this yeah can
you all see my
screen yes okay so there were two bills
that were proposed that this uh this
legis this legislative session one of
them were Senate Bill 578 was proposed
by Senator dids and um it was basically
um the bill required that it is in the
public interest or for a public utility
to buy energy capacity and environmental
attributes from offshore generation
facilities um owned by any entities
other than the public utilities and also
um the bill required that like you know
how it would change uh from current to
the Future scenario if the bill were
passed um so dominan would be compelled
to purchase third party offshore wind if
they were not winning the beaing in the
competitive procurement process but
since this bill was not passed this
session and it was continued to 2025 um
I guess we we are still like you know we
will just be in the current position of
that bill and I think um this is that
that's the general update for this one
and the second bill was uh Senate Bill
688 which was proposed by Senator cine
and it was the development of um
offshore wind capacity prohibited cost
recovery so SEC prohibited cost recovery
for phase two utility in excess of $16
million so if any uh if phase to utility
had um like you know cost over $16
million taking place after July 1 2024
they could not recover that amount so
they could only recover up to $16
million but this bill was also um moved
to 2025 General Assembly session so
these are the brief updates I have some
um like some background for both of
these bills if you want I can pull I can
like you know keep this slide so just
for your reading uh this is for Bill
578 and then um I have the 688 slide as
well in here so I'll just keep in 578 so
if you if you want to read or like you
know I can share the update via email if
you want
that thank you Rita um any questions so
Kathy I see your hand
raised yes uh thanks for that um we we
provided letters of support for both of
those um do we need to do that again for
these and review what changes have been
made uh I don't think it will be up
until 2024 General Assembly session so
when it's up again in 202 uh I mean I'm
sorry I said 2024 I mean I meant 2025 so
when it's up again in 2025 I believe the
process would be the same it has to go
through the committee and then um Senate
and House and then it will like you know
it has to go through all the process the
usual process so I believe you would
have to going forward in next general
assembly session you would have to do
everything okay and is there any uh
assistance that we could provide for any
changes that might assist those in
moving
forward um so we usually start working
on the bills um in July but those are
mostly Governor bills but if you want to
like you know send any support or any
any update on those bills we can
definitely keep them handy because next
year in the next general assembly
session when the bills will be up we
will have to submit uh legislative
action summaries and like you know in
support of the bill and background so we
can add them to our background and all
those
information okay thank you yep
our yes there was uh it seemed there was
some press suggesting that in the inter
between now and the 2025 session that
there could be additional work that
would be done to analyze the effect uh
perhaps being sent to the commission on
electric utility regulation is there
anyone who is aware of any uh initiative
to to push things that direction so
there could be more
study um for now I do not have any
information on that um but I can
definitely get back to you um I mean we
usually check uh track the regulation
that comes to STC um so if you I I can
keep you updated on that um and
definitely if you have if you need any
information you can always you know
shoot us an email and we'll get back to
you with more information thank you very
much yeah I think Rita that would be
helpful because I I think what Howard
might be also referring to was and a lot
of those bills that got pushed to 25 um
it was essentially that they needed to
be further studied right um something
that if we could get some better
visibility um and tracking of of okay
what does that mean who's studying it
kind of where that where we are in that
process because there were several um
energy related bills that were all in
that bucket that were sent to you know
be
studied okay all right okay I'll I'll
keep you
updated any other questions Ashley my
question just revolves around you can
hear hear me I hope um okay great um
revolves around in between now and the
general assembly session what V is
allowed to do in regard to speaking with
um elected delegates and Senators to
explain um our perspective on this or to
ensure that they received our support or
um from the the from the from V
specifically um there's no election if
it's everybody's in place it's going to
be the same Folks at the general
assembly this year so it's good
education
year um I would definitely or go ahead
Rita no no no go ahead go ahead I was
going to say I would reference just the
previous letter that we submitted for
2024 you know that's already on record
it's it's something that's public so I
think my my initial thought would be if
if anyone is having those kind of
discussions referencing our previously
submitted letter would probably be the
most appropriate
Ryan I'm G to follow up with what will
just said I would stick to referencing
the letter that was submitted for last
year's legislation um or for last
session's legislation um opposed
to speaking to
concept excellent thank you eileene has
a question in the
chat okay let's see thank you for
that let's pull this up
okay so rabida says SB 578 was referred
to in the seur will Virginia energy be
tracking it
there um usually sir so what bills go to
Sir um what we have seen is it's it's
kind of a way of like you know dying the
bills bill is died in a it's it's in a
different language but the bill is
basically dead um but yeah if if
anything happens there we will
definitely track
it Ryan I'm just going to further beat
his comments again uh this year's method
of killing energy bills without killing
energy bills was basically to send them
to sewer and so we saw a large number of
bills be sent to sewer um more than they
can probably handle at this point given
their current Staffing even though they
are working to currently staff up and so
just further emphasizing that if they do
come up I'm sure we will be tracking
them as a part of our job but
yes and and I that's what I would ask
kind of back to what Kathy had mentioned
is if we can just get some better comms
through the process I know we're all
going into the summer you know it's it's
another year but uh if you all could let
us know kind of where some of those key
bills are um so we can be better
prepared for future meetings to actually
then have productive meetings and and
how we spend that time ahead of the next
legislative cycle
sure we will give update when it's
available perfect thank you so much yep
okay moving into other
business um I know Ashley had wanted to
share an update with from Aven grid so
Ashley go ahead that would be great
thanks so much um I am trying to hit
send on an email to all of you with
these handouts I'm going to show um if I
can get my it to share my screen which
means it's going to show all of for just
a second until I can bring something
else up so look at yourself you'll be
and you can see where appointments I'm
supposed to be at um there we go so um
what I'm looking to do here is just to
let you guys know that um we did um a um
update on our economic impact study and
let me go into full screen well it
doesn't matter um and so what's great
about that is that I wanted you guys to
realize that Kittyhawk um it is a 10 ion
dollar project to go and build the
Kittyhawk offshore wind project and for
Virginia $4.8 billion over 40 years is
the impact financially that we can see
Virginia uh benefiting from 2.7 billion
of that will be spent in um Virginia
Beach with another um the total for the
Hampton Roads area being four billion
dollar just in Virginia or in Hampton
Roads um these are from sales tax
revenue news uh property tax business
professional and income tax that way are
just some of the examples the sheet
includes that you know we'll spend 1.5
billion in construction in Virginia
specifically 1 billion of that again in
Hampton Roads and then after
construction is done and these numbers
are going to be very similar to what um
Dominion is spending as well in regard
to construction because um yes I hate to
be rude I don't think anyone can see
your screen oh you're kidding me well
thank you it says sharing I'm glad you
did that because it makes a lot more
sense if I am showing you the right
thing we're going to try this one more
time share
screen screen okay now can you see
yourselves and you can see what I'm
showing yes okay so I'm not going to
start over I will just go back to the
one there was showing the 4.8 billion
and and that and then here is where
we're talking about um the construction
spending um
that for the project itself and that
once it's constructed then $3
billion um is going to be um spent in
operations and again this is over the
lifetime of the project which is 40
years is what we call the lifetime of
the project so um good news for
financially for the opportunities that
Virginia has um this breaks it down a
little bit more from um the tax revenue
on the back of the sheet which you'll
see is you know 275 million tax revenue
for Virginia Beach specifically with
another another 154 million in Hampton
Roads and another 113 million
specifically to taxes that are
commonwealth related there's a second
sheet that is going to talk about jobs
and I like this graph because it shows
you the Orange is the spending and the
blue is the employment um so it shows
you a bit and up in this corner here you
can see these are the years of
development construction and operations
so that's the lifetime of the project um
getting us to 2061 and so it kind of
breaks it down and we put a guide here
to kind of show you when each of those
would be so um the cumulative jobs over
40 years total in Virginia will be
12,166 is um approximately um and that
is could be um um part-time full-time
direct indirect but that just kind of
shows you just like John was talking to
earlier about seow it's right here
during the construction that's when
we'll have the majority of the job jobs
and then it's going to level out and to
when it's during the operation and
maintenance fees but that's the
consistent part of it that's me
personally as Ash speaking I love seeing
that because that means starting right
around 2032 and moving till 2060 when
we're all great great
grandparents um maybe um that is when
you know that longevity is still there
in the area for revenue streams and for
um um opportunities here for jobs um
this on the it justers further goes
ahead to go and break down um where we
look at the cumul cumulative jobs and
what these are the direct the indirect
and induced impacts gives a little bit
more explanation and the QR code you can
grab your phone when you get the sheets
in your mail or will also take you right
to the full study so that you can read
it I know Howard is going to comb
through it all um so I just wanted to
let you guys know kind of what's going
on that direction um as far as that goes
and um we're excited we're out doing dog
and pony show in the email I put a link
in there we are still at the point and
thank you um Eileen is just really
awesome to make sure we know about all
the events so I'm going to be with her
at Earth Day at Mount Trashmore this um
Saturday we'll have project sheets out
there uh frisbees for the kids that kind
of good stuff coloring books and um but
it gives us a chance to explain to John
Q public those things as well um I know
H um I can't remember if it was Jim or
Howard asked earlier in the meeting to
John how much you know Outreach you're
doing and Dominion is doing a fabulous
job for seal in letting people know it's
whether or not people are receptive to
the information or paying attention so
we're trying to be as many places as we
possibly can as well um to make sure
people understand what the benefits are
that come with having um a second um
project land um bring its power and
connect to the Grid in in Virginia but
we also know that we have a potential
third one so wouldn't that just be
something to be you know have a third
project coming in we find out later this
year what that opportunities are so um
there is a link in there um we're asking
folks our hurdle right now is still um
that um the city council it still is in
at their um in their hands in regard to
we have everything um you know we need
for offshore we've got our our
substation area and those type of things
ready we still have to have a place to
bring the power asore like Ci was coming
into the state military reserve for
their joint trans transition bays and
this is where um we are asking the city
to approve an easement to use the
parking lot um at the tippy top by the
market in Sandbridge um to be able to
put our joint transition Bays there
which would also be additional revenue
for the City of Virginia Beach should
they do that so I'm happy to answer more
questions you guys can reach out to me
but I haven't done a Kittyhawk update in
a while and I thought that would be a
good chance for you guys to know what's
going on and um and let me know if I can
be of additional assistant
thanks will and
Chris excellent um any qu questions for
Ashley about Kitty Hawk Aven
grid okay um any other business from the
board um I will bring up just while it's
top of my mind um lots of work still
going on with the US Coast Guard and
their safety Fairway offshore that kind
of moves forward um kind of interesting
situation I'll say several of us have
been working for a very very very very
long time one with boam two with the
Coast Guard to make sure that there are
offshore wind lease areas and they are
Fairways and they are happily deconflict
so both can grow um I will tell you uh
with my offshore wind hat on little
concerned with um there's several
offshore wind related groups that
are trying to continue to shrink and
change the fairways that is not wise for
Virginia let me put it that way uh and
it is not wise for safe navigation
especially near wind farms um so we're
kind of dealing with that as well to
make sure that we have the safe the the
safety Fairways we need for our vessels
as well as places for offshore wind to
um to develop and grow so I'm glad that
there's there's some of us that are kind
of have a foot in both camps so we can
properly kind of guide and Shepherd that
um Ken I saw your hand
raised yeah just
briefly you muted yourself
again yeah sorry um I sounded like we
were getting ready to wrap up and I just
wanted to make sure that everyone knew
that Al has officially retired uh Vince
Maiden who I believe is still on the
call is our new director of the state
energy office and I just wanted to give
him an opportunity to introduce himself
and uh you'll be getting to know him a
little bit more uh additionally uh
there's been a little internal
rearrangement in our office um I am no
longer handling staff uh duties for the
solar and storage Authority I have
officially become the new lead staff for
this Authority so if you all have
questions issues uh please feel free to
just run them past
me thank you Ken uh Vince welcome any
any comments you'd like to share yeah
just uh a little bit about me so um I Al
Christopher did hire me so he had faith
in me uh when I came on board of
Virginia energy but uh I spent a couple
decades or more so I'm going to show my
age at the Virginia
DEQ uh hi La M uh
who uh and I worked in various
remediation programs and when I left I
was the brownfields program coordinator
and did a lot of work uh across the
Commonwealth to do Revit revitalization
projects work with vedp came here took
the transportation lead I've always been
an energy nerd and really dug in here
and then was bestowed the opportunity to
lead the state Energy Office recently uh
I do not have the wind expertise that Al
had and all the historical knowledge uh
therefore I'm going to depend on you
guys to educate me and I'll learn pretty
quickly uh but I'll definitely be able
to help fill the void over time uh
that's left by Al um and Ken as our as
our um win lead here offshore win lead
is going to help keep me straight and
make sure I know what I need to know uh
I will be going to ipf and trying to get
my crash course in
education and uh networking uh next week
so that's where I'm at and I'll try to
attend these meetings and participate
moving forward and fill whatever role
you need need from
M Thank You
Vince any other business so eile has
asked please read into the record so
I'll read it Hampton Roads Workforce
council is hosting a regional job fair
in Hampton on May 1 we've been working
with them to include clean energy
employers along with a panel
specifically about offshore wind jobs if
any of you would like me to read
anything else happy to do so I can make
a podcast for you nighttime recording um
any other business from the
board
Laura I guess I should say goodbye I
think I'm at the end of my my term and
um I'm not sure um who will be appointed
but um I think that's right Ken right we
we don't have I think June 30th was the
end of my term
correct so anyway thank you all it's
been great working with you over the
past I guess six years and I'm just
really excited to see what happens out
there and looking forward to Virginia
having more green energy and um working
hard to keep all the compatible uses
compatible and um and also uh watch out
for all the ocean wildlife in the
process so thank you all and good luck
to all of you I know there's an
incredible future ahead so I'll be
watching and if I I can help let me
know well I do want to say um about
Laura you know we're very happy to have
Laura on the team I've learned a lot I
call Laura the queen of compatibility if
you will uh and my favorite phrase
always no matter what we talked about um
and you guys all remember the calls when
we were like hashing out certain
priorities and things Laura was always
really good on saying yeah but what
about the Fisheries or but what about
this this group or but what about that
group um so it was almost we got used to
expecting that that that we were going
to make sure that certain things were
added but I appre appreciate that and
I'll say that I'm actually pretty proud
of the the diversity and the makeup of
this board because it makes sure that we
although we all come from very different
um professional interests in our day
jobs when we all come together here and
really try to solve the question of what
is best for Virginia right and that's
really the question here so uh Laura
thank you so much for for your
leadership uh with Marco and everything
that you've done you'll be sorely missed
but I know you're around the corner if
we need you so thank you Laura please
join and congratulating Laura on
retiring and being done so thank
you thank you
all all right any other business from
the
board okay Ken do we have anyone signed
up for public
comments I would just say raise your
hand if you have any all right anyone
from the public I think the rules are no
more than two minutes but if anyone from
our public guests any comments or
questions please use the raise your hand
feature seeing none we will move to
adjournment uh do we have our next
meeting on the
books Ken uh yeah we do uh I will have
to go and look at my calendar and see
when it is no problem I'm sure we'll
follow that up um okay so thank you
everyone uh for being part of our
virtual meeting I think this worked nice
I hope you guys agree I know many of you
traveling from around the state uh we'll
make sure we we keep this option as we
are able as per our bylaws so can I get
a motion to adjourn real quick will
chair yes uh just to make note I believe
we do need to have one meeting um in
Richmond so not knowing if it's our next
meeting but I don't know that we have
more than two meetings left in this
current calendar year so just a point of
uh note that we will have to look at a
Richmond location before the end of this
year Ed just put in the chat that July
17th is our next
meeting okay and I think Vince is also
inviting us all up to Richmond and he's
going to take us out for a lunch and
drinks so that that that sounds like a
good Virginia or Richmond meeting
so okay so a motion to adjourn please a
motion all right I'll skip the second
and we're adjourned here 11:15 see you
guys next time see you cheers bye thanks
you so bye Laura happy retirement