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VOWDA approves draft annual report, asks staff to track federal actions and tidy statute language
Summary
The Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority approved a draft annual report with edits, agreed to add monitoring of federal developments to recommendations, directed staff to incorporate research/innovation language and to generalize public-private partnership code language, and scheduled a November meeting in Richmond.
The Virginia Offshore Wind Development Authority voted to approve a draft annual report and directed staff to incorporate a set of agreed edits, including an explicit recommendation to evaluate federal developments and legislation that could affect current and future offshore wind projects.
The vote came during a discussion of edits to the report and proposed amendments to the Authority’s enabling language in state code. Members also asked staff to generalize public‑private partnership language, add explicit research and innovation wording to objectives and reference the governor’s "all of the above" energy plan alongside the Virginia Clean Economy Act.
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