In a city still feeling the weakening remnants of the former Hurricane Hermine, Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday visited New Bedford where his top energy advisor planned to tour a research vessel owned by a company that’s hoping to fill the state’s energy needs under its new offshore wind power law.

Baker and Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton plan to tour the DONG Energy vessel following an 11 a.m. wind energy announcement. Offshore wind developers including DONG are signing a letter of intent to use the New Bedford Commerce Terminal for potential offshore wind construction activities, according to a source.

DONG’s proposed Bay State Wind project is planned off the southern coast of Martha’s Vineyard in an area where the company has secured lease rights from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. In August, DONG filed an 800-megawatt interconnection request application with ISO-New England to bring its offshore wind power to a substation connection point at Brayton Point in nearby Somerset, where the Baker administration on Friday announced the completion of a boat access project connecting users to the tidal section of the Taunton River and Mount Hope Bay.

The renewable energy law signed by Baker in August calls for Massachusetts to launch a procurement effort designed to lead to the construction of offshore wind installations capable of delivering 1,600 megawatts of power to a grid that is losing coal-fired plants and is set to see Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth cease operations on May 31, 2019 after refueling in 2017.