Baltimore County has applied for a $26m federal grant to upgrade a former shipyard to accommodate assembly, fabrication and shipping for the offshore wind sector.
The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant application to the Department of Transportation is for the Wind Start project on 15-acres of the Sparrows Point peninsula in Maryland.
Baltimore County said Sparrows Point Shipyard and its partner US Wind would upgrade piers and bulkheads, staging areas and ship-to-road access to support offshore wind development.
If the grant is approved, the County said Wind Start could create up to 1200 construction jobs and over 900 permanent jobs at the Sparrows Point peninsula.
Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz said: “No single east coast location has the same level of waterfront, large storage areas and transportation access as the Sparrows Point peninsula.”
Image: the Block Island project will become the US’s first offshore wind farm (Deepwater Wind)
