Offshore wind: First ocean areas to be leased off California today for floating wind turbines Wind farms to be built off Humboldt, Morro Bay coasts, more than 20 miles from land ...

The first-ever federal auction of floating offshore wind power sites off the Pacific coast ended Wednesday with bids totaling $757 million. When fully developed, the sites could power 1.5 million ...

The wind turbines planned off the San Luis Obispo County coast would be similar to Ocean Wind’s WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind energy project near Portugal. They are each about 688 ...

California is looking to lead the way on renewable energy on the west coast. In 2021, AB 525 was passed in the California legislature to come up with a strategic plan to create offshore wind ...

Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking aim at California’s climate agenda. Eleven major solar projects and one onshore wind project ...

The turbines in Ocean Wind’s WindFloat Atlantic floating offshore wind energy project near Portugal are massive. They are each about 688 feet tall, or about twice the height of the Statue of ...

The bill estimates that 10,000 megawatts of wind power would take up about 1,200 square miles of ocean, or an area about 22% of the size of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.It’s Thursday, Jan. 12. I’m Ryan Fonseca. The Pacific Ocean contains a potential windfall of clean, renewable energy.

Last month, the group formed a consortium to erect a 100- to 150-megawatt wind farm of between 12 and 15 turbines more than 20 miles off the coast of Eureka, near the Oregon border. The turbines ...

The other area, called the Morro Bay wind energy area, is located about 20 miles off the coast of Cambria and San Simeon. It encompasses a total of 240,898 acres of the ocean.

Floating wind turbines are increasingly ... cover about 583 square miles in two regions—one off central California’s Morro Bay and the other near the Oregon ... of Ocean Energy ...

Now, proposals to develop a massive floating offshore wind farm in the Pacific Ocean near Cambria may diminish Blue’s fishing grounds by 399 square miles — an area more than twice the size of ...