ENROLLED
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 25
BY REPRESENTATIVE ORGERON
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Louisiana Public Service Commission to investigate the benefits,
feasibility, costs, and pathways to achieving a demonstrable offshore wind energy
pilot project by 2026.
WHEREAS, the experience and infrastructure of Louisiana's oil and gas industry are
uniquely positioned to transition into the offshore wind industry; and
WHEREAS, foundations for the country's first offshore wind farm, Block Island,
were designed by Keystone Engineering of Metairie and fabricated by Gulf Island
Fabrication of Houma; and
WHEREAS, the first Jones Act-qualified wind farm service operations vessel, the
Eco Edison, is being built by Edison Chouest Offshore, headquartered in Cut Off, Louisiana;
and
WHEREAS, the ports and shipyards of Louisiana are ideally located and equipped
to handle the large component parts required for wind facility installation and power
production; and
WHEREAS, LM Wind Power's Technology Center Americas facility, located in New
Orleans, serves as a research and innovation hub for the wind industry; and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy
Laboratory determined that Louisiana has the fourth highest offshore wind energy potential
of any state in the nation; and
WHEREAS, a single, six hundred megawatt offshore wind project has the potential
to create four thousand four hundred seventy jobs and four hundred forty-five million dollars
in gross domestic product during construction, as well as an additional one hundred fifty
full-time jobs and fourteen million dollars annually during ongoing operations; and
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WHEREAS, Louisiana has already begun to position the state as a hub for the
production of green hydrogen which could be supported by the use of offshore wind energy;
and
WHEREAS, developing Louisiana's offshore wind industry presents a potential new
source of state and local revenue as well as workforce and economic development
opportunities.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge and request the Louisiana Public Service
Commission to investigate the benefits, feasibility, costs, and pathways to achieving
demonstrable offshore wind energy development by 2026.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
executive secretary of the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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