Joseph R. Nolan
President and Chief Executive Officer at Eversource Energy
Thank you, Jeff. We hope that all on the phone are safe and well, and we look forward to seeing you in person later this year. I will cover a few topics this morning and then turn over the call to Phil to discuss our mid-year financial results with some new and important grid modernization in AMI developments in Massachusetts.
I know the most recent months have resulted in weather challenges across the country. In the West, our peers have [Phonetic] to deal with heat and wildfires. in New England with an increased level of thunderstorm activity dropped off by a glancing blow from Tropical Storm Elsa. Employees have worked around the clock many days restoring power to our customers from tree-caused damage to our overhead [Phonetic] system, while our implementation of new technology in vegetation management has limited the scope of many of the resulting power outages. Our dedicated crews continue to be on the front line completing a large amount of emergency restoration work, in fact, in humid conditions over the past month and a half and doing so in a safe and effective manner.
The work has been excellent and we continue to receive notes of appreciation from both our customers and municipal leaders. I was out all day in Connecticut. The day also passed through and I cannot say enough about our team in preparing for and responding to storm damage in coastal regions of Connecticut in Massachusetts. We greatly appreciate the recognition of those efforts that we received from Connecticut PURA Commissioners at the July 14 meeting.
As I mentioned during our first quarter earnings call, improving our relationship with Connecticut policymakers and customers is my top priority as CEO. Earlier this week, a number of Connecticut legislators joined several state community education and labor leaders at our Berlin Connecticut campus to celebrate the 1st class of students who are completing our new Lineworker certification program in partnership with the Hartford based Capital Community College. We continue to see steady monthly improvements in our customer favorability ratings and we appreciate the positive feedback we are receiving from municipal leaders. But we have to prove ourselves during the next major storm. I strongly believe that the changes we are implementing to our communication systems and processes will put us in a much better place the next time a multi-day storm cleanup effort occurs.
Next I want to provide an update on the offshore wind partnership with Orsted. Over the past few months, we have continued to make significant progress on the three projects that I noted on Slide 3. Perhaps the most significant development was the agreement we reached with Dominion Energy to charter the Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel, currently under construction in Brownsville, Texas. Once construction of the vessel was complete in late 2023, it will seal to New London, Connecticut where it will be used to install wind turbines for Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind. The vessel will be one of the largest, most advanced of its kind in the world and will provide a more efficient approach to construction and use the feeder barges.
Work has recently begun at New London at the state-owned ocean facing Deepwater peer to convert into a major state area for offshore wind. As you know, the primary variable in our construction timetable to siting approvals. We continue to be on a good path to secure Federal Bureau of Ocean Management or BOEM approval of 132MW South Fork project in January of 2022, which will enable construction to begin early next year and will be completed before the end of 2023. During hearings spring [Phonetic] resulted in Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Council approval of the project, we indicated that we would install 12 11-megawatt turbines in connection with this project.
We are making progress on the 2 larger projects as well. State permitting applications in Rhode Island for Revolution Wind and in New York for Sunrise Wind we're filed last December. In April, the Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board issued a preliminary decision in order and Revolution Wind schedule with advisory opinions for local and state agencies to be submitted by August 26, 2021. Evidentiary hearings are due to begin by mid October.
The Sunrise Wind application was deemed complete by New York officials on July 1, initiating the formal review process for the project. As we noted in May, BOEM was targeting the completion of the review of Revolution Wind for the third quarter of 2023. Based on that review schedule, we now expect to be able to achieve commercial operation in 2025. We have not yet received the schedule for BOEM's review of the Sunrise project, but we are in a good position with our New London stacking area, our turbine installation ship and our suppliers. So depending on the BOEM review schedule that we expect to receive within the next few months, we expect Sunrise will reach commercial operation in 2025 as well.
These dates are consistent with the vision of the Biden administration, which continues to accelerate to review of offshore wind projects proposed for the Atlantic Coast. It is also consistent with the administration's target of having 30,000MW of offshore wind operating in the United States by 2030. Offshore wind is one of several initiatives underway to help our states achieve the greenhouse gas reduction targets.
On July 14, PURA took major -- took a major step forward in furthering the state's clean energy goals when it approved a comprehensive program to support the state's push for having at least 125,000 zero emission vehicles on the road by the end of 2025. The order is described on slide 4. We appreciate a number of the changes that PURA made to the draft decision to enhance the programs expected success. We will submit the implementation plan based on the PURA order by October 15.
Also on that slide is a description of a proposal that Massachusetts Utilities submitted on July 14 to further develop the infrastructure that is needed to support rapid conversion of the states vehicles to zero emissions. As you can see on the slide, by the end of this year, we will have invested $55 million in our Massachusetts Electric Vehicle program helping to connect about 4,000 charge ports. However since transportation is responsible for more than 40% of the states' greenhouse gas emissions, significantly more support is needed to help the state beat its targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and 70% by 2040.
Massachusetts had only 36,000 electric vehicles registered as of January 1, 2021 and in 2020, only 3% of the light duty vehicle sold in the state where EVs. While that percentages above average for the country as a whole, it needs to be enhanced significantly going forward since at the current pace, we will have fewer than 500,000 EVs in Massachusetts, as of 2030. We need more than 1 million EVs by then for the state to reach its targets.
We have proposed spending more than $190 million on EV support from 2022 to 2025, including $68 million of capital investment. These investments are described on the slide and include the expanded Charter infrastructure investment, some rate incentives in new opportunities to add EV infrastructure in environmental justice communities. Our support for our stage greenhouse gas reduction efforts is discussed at length in our 2020 Sustainability Report, which was posted on our website earlier this month. A link to the new report is included on Slide 5.
The revamp report has incorporated a number of enhancements to provide you with more visibility into our environmental, social and governance efforts. We're also pleased to share updates on our 20:30 carbon neutrality goal, including our first third party verification of our 20-20 greenhouse gas footprint.
We have a number of teams within Eversource cast with making our 2030 goal a reality. They include a team focusing on reducing emissions in 5 principal areas. Another team working on developing the strategy to offset emissions that cannot be eliminated by 2030 and another team that's encouraging all 9,300 Eversource employees to contribute to their best ideas on how we could achieve our 2030 goal. They've have already developed some truly innovative proposals that we are evaluating. Their enthusiasm is just more evident on why I am so confident about Eversource's future.
Now I will turn the call over to Phil Lembo.
