$426 million grant jump starts plans to build hundreds of turbines in the Pacific Ocean, 20 miles offshore
A 9.5 megawatt floating wind turbine for Scotland’s Kincardine Offshore Wind project at its assembly dock in the Netherlands in 2021. In the latest significant step for California’s efforts to build offshore wind farms in the Pacific Ocean, the Biden administration has awarded nearly half a billion dollars for a project to construct and deploy hundreds of huge turbines to float 20 miles off the state’s coast.
In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Interior awarded wind power leases to five companies that bid $757 million for two large areas between 20 and 35 miles off Humboldt County and off Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County. But having federal funding to build a marine facility to launch the floating wind turbines is a major milestone, supporters say.
“Humboldt Bay is going to become a hub of manufacturing and assembling these systems for the rest of California and for Oregon,” Huffman said. “We’re talking about thousands of good-paying union jobs.”“This is the best thing that I have ever been a part of in my life to make change and ensure a future for our children and our families,” said Greg Dale, chairman of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. “I’m pretty proud of this.
“By being 20 miles or more out to sea, most of the time people from the shore won’t see anything,” Stern said. “But on some very clear days, you might see something in the distance that looks like toothpicks on the horizon.”
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