California on Wednesday set ambitious new targets for offshore wind development, saying turbines along its storied coastline would power some 25 million homes by 2050.
In a unanimous vote, the five-member California Energy Commission adopted a goal of 3,000 to 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2030 and 25,000 MW by 2045, the agency said in a statement.
In a statement, the CEC said offshore wind would help the state meet its goal of decarbonizing the electricity sector by 2045 because it can produce power after the sun goes down. The CEC had been directed by a state law passed last year to quantify the maximum amount of offshore wind that would be achievable by 2030 and 2045.
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