Jung provides SBMT job numbers and future offshore wind pipeline challenges

In terms of the discrete job question that you asked, like I mentioned before, there's been over 2,500 unique union workers on site working.

There will be 200 workers that will assemble the large wind turbine components, and then there will be 60 permanent jobs for operations and maintenance for the

offshore portion of Empire One's maintenance.

I think I'll just speak a little bit to the future pipeline.

We know that given federal obstruction, there's been aggressive tactics that have been implemented that have, one, halted all new permitting and

procurements for federal wind lease areas.

So we do see the future being challenged there, but we are working hand in glove with New York State and NYSERDA, which still has a nine gigawatt goal of offshore wind

to ensure that we're doing all that we can to sustain the offshore wind development industry if and as a new federal administration that's friendlier to offshore wind comes into place.

For example, we've been supporting NYSERDA on what they call a pre-development RFP.

So the state is looking to the broad industry and local government partners for ideas on how to support pre-development activities that offshore wind developers will need so that they can jumpstart

when there is a friendly administration in place.

I'll close by saying that moving forward, we see offshore wind as a critical component of our clean energy future, but that we're also taking an all of the above approach to ensuring a just transition

to renewables, which includes supporting projects like CHIPPE, the Champlain Hudson Power Express, which we supported with some incentives there, that is bringing

1,250 megawatts of clean hydropower from Canada to New York City.