{"id":2890,"date":"2023-11-07T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/uscseagrant\/?page_id=2890"},"modified":"2024-10-30T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:57:21","slug":"weighing-out-wind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/uscseagrant\/weighing-out-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing Out Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Recent studies by the California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission indicate that the state will require two to six times more renewable energy capacity by 2045. However, California\u2019s planning processes have only recently begun to consider offshore wind as a component of this future energy supply. In the United States, several Northeastern states have made offshore wind a cornerstone of their future clean energy portfolios. California differs from the East Coast and much of Europe in that the state\u2019s deep coastal waters will require its wind turbines to be on floating platforms rather than on structures fixed to the seabed. While the cost of floating offshore wind today is higher than fixed-bottom offshore wind, the technology is well understood and its cost is expected to decline rapidly with commercialization and greater scale of deployment. USC Sea Grant funded a study to address several questions for California in the years and decades ahead: 1) what benefits would the emergence of a major offshore wind power sector create for California workers and communities; 2) what policies might optimize these impacts; and 3) would offshore wind power be a competitive source of renewable energy in comparison to other clean energy sources?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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