Francis Slingsby
Francis Slingsby has assumed the function of CEO at Mayflower Wind, a three way partnership of Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell) and Ocean Winds North America. With greater than a decade of expertise in industrial and enterprise growth within the U.S. offshore wind power sector at Ørsted, he succeeds Michael Brown who will convey his expertise and relationships to the Mayflower Wind board of administrators.
“I am delighted to join Mayflower Wind as we continue to accelerate the transformation to a cleaner energy future,” stated Slingsby. “Mayflower Wind has successfully built a leadership position in the offshore wind market, and we will continue to develop projects and build new opportunities for our communities.”
Mayflower Wind has grown considerably since its inception in 2019, bringing collectively its mother or father corporations’ intensive expertise creating offshore wind initiatives throughout the globe. The three way partnership is comprised of a various workforce of greater than 70 staff devoted to delivering a 2.4 GW portfolio of offshore wind power to New England.
“This is an exciting time for Mayflower Wind and the offshore wind industry,” stated Michael Brown, U.S. nation supervisor at OW Ocean Winds NA, “Francis brings deep knowledge about how to bring an offshore wind development to life, and just as important, he has a vision for how valuable it is to work with our communities to bring benefits locally, regionally, and nationally. He’s the kind of skilled and thoughtful person you want leading a project.”
Mayflower Wind’s full offshore wind lease space has a capability of two,400 MW and can create some 27,000 jobs over its lifetime. Pending a remaining funding determination, (FID) Mayflower expects to ship the primary 1200 MW of energy by the top of the 2020s and has dedicated that energy to a number of of Massachusetts’ largest public utilities. That challenge, often known as the SouthCoast challenge, will hook up with the electrical grid at Brayton Point in Somerset, Mass., as soon as the house of the area’s largest coal plant.
