This remarkable resource will generate clean electricity around the clock and help us transition away from fossil fuel-based energy as quickly as possible while ensuring grid reliability.” On the commission’s website, CEC Chair David Hochschild noted, “These ambitious yet achievable goals are an important signal of how committed California is to bringing the offshore wind industry to our state. Any future procurement authorization of offshore wind will have to go through all necessary resource planning, procurement, and permitting requirements,” she said. “It is also important to emphasize that these planning goals are not procurement targets. The planning document was developed in coordination with federal, state, and local agencies as well as tribal governments, fisheries, and other ocean users.Īs reported by Kavya Balaraman at Utility Dive, Rhetta deMesa, project manager with the commission, said agency staff know these goals may need updating as floating turbine technology develops and experience with early deployments is absorbed. All part of the state’s decarbonization goals. That would be enough to power about 25 million homes by mid-century, and well above the 10,000-15,000 megawatts previously being considered. In response to state legislation passed in 2021 and a recent letter to regulators from Newsom calling on agencies to “up our game” on climate, the California Energy Commission (CEC) voted last Wednesday to adopt preliminary planning goals for installing 2,000 to 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030, and an “aspirational” 25,000 megawatts by 2045.
Public comments on the proposal closed Aug. 1. In May, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced a proposed sale notice for leases off the Northern California and Central California coasts.
Gavin Newsom signed an agreement last year to open the California coast for offshore wind development. On the Pacific Coast, however, the continental shelf is typically narrow and drops off steeply into deep water. Instead of being anchored on piles driven into the seabed as on the Atlantic Coast, floating turbines are required, using various flexible anchors. States have so far set their own targets of 46,000 megawatts of offshore wind in the Atlantic, but several of those goals extend well beyond 2030.
offshore projects in various stages of development on the Atlantic Coast, with one of them, the 62-turbine, 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts slated to go operational in 2023. has 26,000. The Biden administration is determined to catch up and has called for 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind to be installed by 2030 in the relatively shallow waters of the Atlantic Coast’s continental shelf.Ĭurrently, there are 18 U.S. There’s the five 6-megawatt turbines of Block Island, Rhode Island, generating enough electricity to power about 17,000 homes, and the first two 6-megawatt turbines of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Compared with those 42 megawatts, Germany has 60,000 megawatts of installed offshore capacity, India has 42,000, Spain has 29,000, and the U.K. is far behind other nations when it comes to installed offshore wind capacity. With just two ocean-based wind farms, the U.S. Rendering of a wind farm of floating turbines.
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