TY - RPRT
TI - Economic Impact Study of New Offshore Wind Lease Auctions by BOEM
AU - Zhang, F
AU - Cohen, M
AU - Barr, A
AB - The offshore wind industry is poised for significant growth in the United States. This paper studies the economic impact of offshore wind activities as a result of potential Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) lease auctions this year as well as 2021 and 2022. Based on existing activities and optimistic policy assumptions for future offshore wind development, two million acres of federal waters in the New York Bight, California, North Carolina and South Carolina could be auctioned for commercial leases in 2020 and 2021. This could support 28 GW of offshore wind development and generate $1.2 billion in US Treasury revenue. Other auctions for lease areas in the Gulf of Maine and additional areas in California could also occur in 2022 which could generate an additional $800 million in US Treasury revenue and support 9 GW of offshore wind development.In addition to delivering clean energy to millions of households, the offshore wind industry will also contribute a variety of economic benefits to the US economy, including supporting tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in capital investment. If the assumed BOEM auctions happen this year, in 2021 and 2022, total full time equivalent (FTE) job creation from the resulting offshore wind activities, including development, construction and operation could support approximately 80,000 jobs per year from 2025 to 2035. Turbine manufacturing and supply chain will support 31,000 jobs per year. The construction industry will support 16,000 jobs per year. The transportation and port industries will create 4,000 jobs per year. In addition, general service industries, like restaurant, hotel and day care, will create 19,000 induced jobs. Operations and maintenance (O&M) jobs and O&M-induced jobs will grow from 2,000 per year in 2025 to 6,000 per year in 2030 and 20,500 per year in 2035. Those O&M-related jobs are expected to last beyond 2050. About 3,500 jobs per year will be created from 2022 to 2024 for project development and establishing a turbine supply chain along the East Coast.Significant capital investment will be injected into the US economy to support offshore wind activities. Total investment in the offshore wind industry will be $17 billion by 2025, $108 billion by 2030 and $166 billion by 2035. From 2022 to 2035, capital investment of $42 billion will go to the turbine OEM and supply chain, $107 billion will go to the construction industry, and $8 billion will go to transportation industry and ports. Annual capital investment for O&M activities will increase to $2.4 billion in 2035.
DA - 2020/08//
PY - 2020
SP - 19
PB - Wood Mackenzie
UR - https://www.noia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Offshore-wind-economic-impact-analysis-white-paper-final-1.pdf
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Floating Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -