Let there be wind power!
Eric Adams unveils plan to increase green manufacturing in NYC
BY ROSE ADAMS
Borough President Eric
Adams would work to dramatically
expand New York
City’s wind power industrial
sector into existing city ports
if elected mayor, according to
a new plan that the candidate
revealed April 7.
The mayoral hopeful and
former state senator said he
would advocate for the creation
of wind turbine manufacturing
inside existing industrial
waterfront hubs, such
as the Brooklyn Navy Yard
and the Red Hook Container
Terminal, in order to decrease
the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.
“Now we face a new green
economy with new challenges
and new opportunities, and
New York must lead once
again,” Adams said at a press
conference in Sunset Park.
“That’s why it’s crucial that
our city is well positioned to
become the hub of the wind
power ind of the Eastern Seaboard.”
The plan, which Adams
announced outside the South
Brooklyn Marine Terminal
in Sunset Park, comes months
after New York State awarded
Norwegian energy company
Equinor a bid to turn the
Brooklyn port into a wind turbine
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manufacturing hub.
The manufacturing plant,
which will stretch across the
vacant terminal’s 73 acres, will
be used to assemble and stage
wind turbines the height of the
Chrysler building before shipping
them to Equinor’s three
wind farms, located off of Long
Island. The three wind farms
are slated to generate a total
of 3.3 gigawatts for the state —
enough to power more than 1.8
million homes for a year.
Adams lauded the planned
South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
assembly plant, and said
he would work with the Army
Corps of Engineers to upgrade
the infrastructure at existing
ports and prepare them for
similar wind energy manufacturing
projects.
“We need to get ahead of
this and not start building out
once the proposals are here,”
he said. “We need to lead the
way.”
To identify other ways to
expand green energy manufacturing,
Adams said he would
start a “wind power development
team” at City Hall that
would work with industry experts
and city agencies to expand
the city’s manufacturing
capacity. He would also loop in
graduates of the city’s public
colleges by investing $1 million
in training programs for wind
power manufacturing jobs and
creating a walk-in job training
center in Sunset Park — right
by the planned South Brooklyn
Marine Terminal facility,
he explained.
“These are well paying
jobs,” said Adams. “A wind turbine
service technician is one
of the fastest growing jobs in
the United States.”
The Sunset Park assembly
plant will create 1,200 manufacturing
jobs once it opens in
2025, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced
in January.
Other mayoral candidates
have also put forward green
energy and climate proposals.
Comptroller Scott Stringer has
proposed turning Rikers Island
into a renewable energy
hub; former Sanitation Commissioner
Kathryn Garcia has
suggested restoring the coastline’s
wetlands to protect waterfront
communities; Yang
has supported an ambitious
plan to harness the East River
for energy; and Wiley and Morales
have called for using
green infrastructure and construction
inside the city’s public
housing stock, among other
plans.
Borough President Eric Adams is joined by other offi cials in Sunset Park as he announces his plan to expand
wind power manufacturing if elected mayor. Courtesy of campaign
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