Excerpt: “The West Coast Offshore Wind Energy Strategic Science Plan outlines research needs for NOAA Fisheries to gauge the effects of wind turbines that could one day float off California and Oregon, where current leases exist and future lease sales are planned. Ocean depths off the West Coast require developers to pioneer wind technology using floating platforms that have not yet been employed on a large commercial scale. The industry envisions new port facilities in Long Beach and Humboldt Bay to construct the large turbines, and new transmission lines to feed the new power into the region’s electric grid. … NOAA Fisheries works in support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of responsibly deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 while protecting biodiversity and other uses of the ocean, and specifically deploying 15 gigawatts of floating offshore by 2035. Standing up this new energy sector represents investments of hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure and jobs.”
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