Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) will be turned into an offshore wind energy port facility.
The project will transform the shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing space into an operations and maintenance hub for offshore wind farms.
The nonprofit quasi-governmental New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), along with Norwegian fossil and renewable energy company Equinor, its British partner BP, and the city-owned terminal operators will be in charge of the project.
NYC — as well as the state — has set goals to shift away from fossil fuels by creating and depending solely on a new, electrified economy by 2040. This comes after the Biden administration leased nearly half a million acres of the Atlantic Ocean for offshore wind development in January in the largest and most lucrative auction of its kind to date.
