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Governor Healey, partners break ground on Salem Offshore Wind Terminal; officials tout jobs and infrastructure funding
Summary
Governor Maura Healey, state and federal officials and industry partners on Friday broke ground on the Salem Offshore Wind Terminal, a reuse of a former coal site that officials said will support U.S. offshore wind deployment, create union jobs under a project labor agreement, and has attracted federal infrastructure grants and Port Infrastructure Development Program backing.
Governor Maura Healey and local and federal partners on Friday marked the start of construction at the Salem Offshore Wind Terminal, calling the project a reuse of a former coal site that will support the emerging U.S. offshore wind industry and bring jobs and infrastructure investments to the North Shore.
"This was the site of a polluting dirty coal plant. Look at the transformation," Governor Maura Healey said at the event in Salem, praising local leaders, labor partners and Crowley Wind Services for the project. She highlighted recent federal and state funding she said will turbocharge the effort, citing a multistate nearly $400 million grant (the governor cited $389,000,000) to upgrade the regional grid and a $450,000,000 EPA award aimed at boosting heat pump production.
The terminal, official…
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