VIDEO: Offshore Wind Company Ørsted Officially Opens Innovation Hub in Providence at Wexford
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VIDEO: Offshore Wind Company Ørsted Officially Opens Innovation Hub in Providence at Wexford
“Rhode Island represents as strong, if not the strongest, marine blue innovation economy ecosystem anywhere in the country,” Ørsted New England division head Matt Morrissey told GoLocal on Monday.
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As part of Ørsted’s commitment to building an offshore wind industry supply chain in the U.S., the company established its Innovation Hub team in Rhode Island. To facilitate its mission, the Hub team will leverage Ørsted’s industry-leading expertise across the company’s offices in U.S. and Europe. Ørsted expects its seven work stations at Providence’s CIC will be regularly filled with dedicated innovation team leaders as well as rotating team members from the company’s global headquarters in Denmark and its regional headquarters in North America.
The purpose of this team will be to identify, foster, and, where appropriate, finance enterprises related to offshore wind, with a focus on next-generation technology and related innovation in the offshore wind energy field. The Innovation Hub will serve as the physical location for this team as they investigate U.S.-based companies interested in deploying next generation technologies to advance offshore wind deployment. As a key part of this process the innovation hub team will leverage Rhode Island’s existing innovation ecosystem.