{"id":2730,"date":"2020-03-18T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:38:11","slug":"what-type-of-jobs-are-made-available-by-offshore-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/ate\/what-type-of-jobs-are-made-available-by-offshore-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"What Type of Jobs Are Made Available by Offshore Wind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"question_context\">This question was supplied by the &#8216;Ask the Experts&#8217; database managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"question_review\">Reviewed by: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/meet\/kate-venturini-2\/\">Kate Venturini<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"question_update\">Last Update: March 30th, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Offshore wind creates jobs in more disciplines that you might think. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has a <a href=\"https:\/\/awea-jobs.careerwebsite.com\/\">career database<\/a> that includes positions for engineers, technicians, accountants, educators, communications and marketing professionals, project and operations managers, and more.<\/p>\n<p>A 2016 study by the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that 80,000 offshore wind-related jobs could be created in the U.S. by 2030. By 2050, this projection is set to increase to 180,000.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Additional estimates indicate that construction of an 8 GW wind farm off of the U.S. Northeast coast has the potential to create more than 16,000 full-time equivalent jobs in 2028.<sup>2 <\/sup>These new local jobs will require talent from a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, construction, operations and maintenance.<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button post_button \" href=\"https:\/\/awea-jobs.careerwebsite.com\/\" title=\"\">Find Out More About Working in OSW Here<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/National-Offshore-Wind-Strategy\">https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/National-Offshore-Wind-Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastwindcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-job-creation-in-offshore-wind.pdf\">https:\/\/www.northeastwindcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-job-creation-in-offshore-wind.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[3] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastwindcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-job-creation-in-offshore-wind.pdf\">https:\/\/www.northeastwindcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-job-creation-in-offshore-wind.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offshore wind creates jobs in more disciplines that you might think. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has a career database that includes positions for engineers, technicians, accountants, educators, communications and marketing professionals, project and operations managers, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ate","category-careers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}