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Offshore wind developer Orsted and specialty steel fabricator EEW say they will develop a $250 million facility to manufacture monopile components for the entire U.S. wind industry at the port of Paulsboro, N.J., on the Delaware River. Gov. Phil Murphy billed it as "the largest industrial offshore wind investment in the United States to date" creating more than 500 skilled jobs at build-out, "jobs at a time when New Jersey's economy has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic." The facility is expected to begin producing monopiles starting in 2023. The Paulsboro Marine Terminal was touted early on by offshore wind advocates as a potential Mid-Atlantic base for the U.S. industry, and the partnership of Orsted and EEW pledged to use southern New Jersey as a manufacturing center for monopiles to build the 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind project off Atlantic City. |