CHARLOTTE — The North Carolina Taskforce for Offshore Wind Economic Resource Strategies (NC TOWERS) held its quarterly meeting in Charlotte February 1 to discuss the statewide opportunities that offshore wind and its supply chain offer North Carolinians. The taskforce meeting followed a third North Carolina and UK working group meeting scheduled earlier in the week, since the signing of the joint Memorandum of Understanding.
“There are 27 offshore wind projects currently under development from Maine to North Carolina – including three off the North Carolina coast,” said N.C. Department of Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders. “These projects, and the supply chain to support them, represent the potential for tens of billions of dollars in economic investments across North Carolina and tens of thousands of family-sustaining jobs for North Carolinians.”