Dear Chair and Members of the Committee: On behalf of Lynnhaven River NOW, a Virginia Beach–based nonprofit dedicated to clean water, healthy coastal ecosystems, and climate resilience, I urge you to support SB 25, the Offshore Wind Industry Workforce Program and Fund. Virginia is on the cusp of becoming a national offshore wind hub. Dominion Energy’s 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project is expected to power roughly 660,000 homes and avoid millions of tons of carbon pollution, while helping meet the Virginia Clean Economy Act requirement that Dominion deliver 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045. Economic analyses for CVOW estimate on the order of 900 jobs and more than $140 million in economic output annually during construction, and about 1,100 long-term jobs and nearly $210 million in yearly output once the project is operating – much of this concentrated in Hampton Roads. These jobs span construction, maritime trades, advanced manufacturing, and long-term operations and maintenance. SB 25 is the logical workforce counterpart to that investment. By directing the Virginia Department of Energy to identify and develop training resources for the offshore wind industry – covering both technical and soft skills – the bill provides a coordinated framework for preparing Virginians for these high-quality careers, with explicit direction to coordinate with partners and prioritize veterans, local workers, and residents of economically disadvantaged communities. The Department is already working with organizations such as the Hampton Roads Workforce Council, community colleges, and the Mid-Atlantic Wind Training Alliance to build Global Wind Organization (GWO)-aligned training pathways for offshore wind jobs. Virginia now hosts two in-state GWO training facilities, and demand will grow as CVOW moves into operations, and additional projects are planned. We respectfully urge you to report SB 25 and help secure a just, locally rooted clean-energy transition for Hampton Roads and the Commonwealth. Sincerely, Lynnhaven River NOW

HB3 Why do we have to pay for another "group" to tell people they get free money to fix their homes? Why should I have to work 3x as hard for what little I get, because someone else isn't willing to work? HB67 Offshore wind isn't going anywhere. Why are we having this? This is useless. HB74 How about we can recover the costs of lobbying out of the executives' pay. The SCC keeps approving garbage, and if VEPCO was required to be as watched as the regular people are, and with public reporting for all their fraud and abuse, we'd have lower rates (removing the clean energy money sucking mandates). Stop taking VEPCO's money, you're paid off just like a crook and then vote for it. HB120 The SCC is supposed to protect us!! We don't need MORE layers of govt doing the same thing. Either the SCC is doing it or it isn't. It is not, so get rid of it.