ASSOCIATED PRESS • September 4, 2022
Offshore wind developers are hiring, after years of touting the promise of tens of thousands of jobs the industry could create in the United States. To launch this new clean energy industry, they now need plenty of workers with the right training and skills. “It’s the sheer number of people we’re going to need in the timeframe that we need them,” said Jennifer Cullen, of Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts. “It’s here, it’s now. We’re building the turbines next year and we’re going to be building many more wind farms after this,” she added.