Offshore Wind Makes Initial Advancements in California

State regulatory and legislative advancements along with recent federal actions begin a long process to bring wind energy off the coast of California. Technical and political challenges remain.

The California Coastal Commission took the biggest step in bringing offshore wind capacity to California with the conditional approval of two leasing auction plans off the coast of California. The Coastal Commission concurred with the federal proposal for the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (WEA) in June after concurred with the federal proposal for the Humb…