#1Diamond offshorewind Port Scale-Up Needs on East and West Coasts: What are the latest plans for US Ports Session Introduction September 26, 2023#2Session Overview Today's Presenters Joshua Singer, Offshore Wind Ports Lead, Moffat & Nichol Matt Burns, Executive Director Maine Port Authority Graham Tyson, Vice President of Operations, Crowley Alderic Blanc, Offshore Structural Engineer, SAFIER INGENIERIE Astrid Green, Business Development Manager, Norwegian Offshore Wind 2 Image: University of Maine#3Potential Floating Offshore Wind in the U.S. Continues to Grow Approx. 2/3 of U.S. offshore wind energy potential has water depths too great for fixed bottom wind (DOE) White House Floating Offshore Wind Shot ➤ Goal of 15GW of Floating Offshore Wind by 2035 (5m homes) ➤ Accelerate breakthroughs across engineering, manufacturing and other inventive areas to reduce costs by more than 70% by 2035 to $45 per megawatt-hour Research and Development Investments - prize competition for floating offshore wind platform technologies First ever commercial floating offshore wind leases sold in California ➤ Numerous foundation technology options under development CA OR WA MT ND MN WI SD WY NV Substructure Type Fixed Floating UT 5 M 8 CO IA NE ME VT NH NY MA CT PA OH MD IN WV VA KY TN AZ OK NM AR 72 KS MO TX LA SC MS AL GA SH NC ...Exclusive Economic Zone The Atlantic and Gulf coasts are suitable for fixed-bottom offshore wind installations near the shore. Waters along the Pacific coast, Gulf of Maine, and around Hawaii, as well as waters further from shore along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, would require floating offshore wind. Generally, water that is at least 60 meters deep is appropriate for floating offshore wind deployment.² 2 Musial, Walt, Donna Heimiller, Philipp Beiter, George Scott, and Caroline Draxl. 2016. "2016 Offshore Wind Energy Resource Assessment for the United States. Technical Report NREL/TP-5000-66599. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Energy.gov/eere/wind/floating-offshore-wind-shot#4More Port Infrastructure is needed Scaling up Port and Supply Chain development on the East Coast has started but more development is needed Floating Offshore Wind has unique requirements Purpose built ports are essential for fabrication, assembly and launching of floating offshore wind units ➤ Floating offshore wind projects provide excellent opportunity for local content The State of Maine is continuing to work on development of a purpose-built offshore wind port Following the BOEM lease sales in California, floating offshore wind port plans announced in Long Beach and Humboldt Pacific Status Operational 4 CR IN TN AL MS GA Ports Marshaling Manufacturing Towers Cables Transition pieces Monopiles Operations and Maintenance Steel plates Nacelles Secondary steel/ foundation platforms Blades TX Offshore substations Under construction Vessel Construction Announced Wind turbine installation Other vessels Offshore Wind Locations Lease Areas Call Areas PA NY A Atlantic Gulf of Mexico Figure 16. Announced and active port, vessel, and supply chain activity in the United States. Announced facilities that are conditional on winning a power offtake agreement are not shown. Image created by John Frenzl, NREL#5Why can't existing US ports be used as is? 5 At smaller scales (1-2MW), demonstration projects can be deployed As the turbine size increases and project size increases, using existing US Ports becomes more challenging ➤ Foundations for the next generation (15MW) turbines are generally larger than a football field and around the height of a 10-story building. ➤ US ports typically do not have the available land needed to fab foundations of this size and store WTG's Foundations have weights on the order of 4,000 to 20,000 metric tons. For comparison, a Boeing 747 weighs approximately 500 metric tons. Existing ports typically do not have the capacity for these loads ➤ Floating foundations need a mechanism for launching (ramp or barge). There are no ports in the US with this infrastructure ➤ The largest semi-sub barges in the world are foreign flagged / not Jones Act Compliant https://www.boa.no/floating-offshore-wind-pilot-project-for-sbm-offshore/#6BOEM's Path Forward for Floating Wind Maine 69°0'0"W dofse Augusta 5 floating OSW lease areas sold and now under development in California. ➤ BOEM's Draft EA for the Maine Research Lease released on July 21, 2023, for public comment. ➤ Draft Call Areas released for the Gulf of Maine. Map of Nominations released showing areas of interest within the Call Area from 7 developers. ➤ BOEM has identified draft Wind Energy Areas offshore Oregon and has released the areas for public comment. ➤ Ports are required to support future developments in these lease areas. 72°0'0"W Map Legend Notes: 71°0'0"W 1. Through the Draft Call Area information exchange meetings in January 2023, BOEM identified several areas that have not been removed and require further analysis. This is not an exhaustive list, but instead reflects areas that BOEM heard about most frequently during meetings. See Section 7(B) of the Call for Information & Nominations. 2. BOEM defined the Platts Bank feature using the 100-meter line of bathymetry. This delineation was informed by prior work completed by the New England Fishery Management Council in considering this area for Habitat Management Area designation. 3. BOEM removed areas from the southern edge of the Call Area following the 140-meter line of bathymetry to avoid Georges Bank, however, BOEM recognizes that the boundary between the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank is a sensitive and productive habitat area. Therefore, this area R represents a 10-km buffer from the 140-meter line of bathymetry Concord Manchester New Hampshire Nashua Lowell Massachusetts Worcester PROVENOC Rhode Island Rochester BOSTON Brockton wy Butterd R na HOTTI (WAS 70°0'0"W Aubum Lewiston Portland.) CASCO BAY 6 HODE ISLAND SOUND NANTUCKET SOUND NANTUCK SHOALE Tackling Bangor 68°0'0"W 67°0'0"W " 14 115 04 16 Growell 113 Basin 117 Cachas Logs 27 NOTH Gulf of Maine Call for Information and Nominations Area (Call Area) Request for Interest (RFI) Area Call Area Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) Area Maine Research Array Requested Lease Area Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Traffic Separation Scheme Existing BOEM Leases Areas for Additional Analysis¹ Lobster Management Area (LMA) 1 Platts Bank' 2 LMA1 Restricted Area Massachusetts Restricted Area Great South Channel Restricted Area 71 00°W 70°0'0"W 69°0'0"W 68°0'0"W 67°0'0"W Georges Bank 3 0 25 50 100 km N 0 15 30 60 nm BOEM BUREAU OF OCEAN Estar MT Map Date: 04/12/2023 OREP-2023-1026