Even Texas is Moving Towards WIND Jobs, because of the JOBS!

(Bloomberg) — Every morning, more than 600 workers clock in at the Louisiana shipyard where the Eco Edison,
the first US-built vessel to service offshore wind farms, is under construction. At quitting time, a parade of pickups
and dusty sedans forms a traffic jam on the road back into town, past buildings that serve the long-dominant oil
and gas industry.

This is just one slice of the energy transition reshaping the Gulf of Mexico region, which is increasingly dotted with
offshore wind projects. In February, the Biden administration announced the first-ever sale of offshore wind leases
in the Gulf, off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Dominion Energy Inc. is spending $500 million on the first US-built
installation vessel, the 472-foot Charybdis, in Brownsville, Texas; and hundreds of people are working on the first
US-built substation near Corpus Christi. In Louisiana, where the National Football League team wears black because
that’s the color of oil, new companies and jobs are sprouting up to support the nascent $100 billion industry.

The number of active projects show that the Gulf's offshore expertise, earned through decades of oil and gas operations,
translates well to supporting wind farms currently under construction. Out of about 1,200 contracts signed by US
companies for offshore needs like survey work, electric substations and cables, companies in the Gulf and the South
have scored 23% of the total, according to a tally kept by the industry group Business Network for Offshore Wind. A
sign near the Edison Chouest Offshore shipyard, where another big wind boat besides the Eco Edison is also under
construction, reads, “Taking applications for all crafts!”

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