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Where, and When, Will California Get Offshore Wind?

Renewable Energy World: Under California’s current trajectory, the state’s first offshore wind farm could be completed in waters near Morro Bay and begin sending power to the grid by 2025, according to Karen Douglas, Commissioner, California Energy Commission.

Those are Douglas’s best guesses, based on progress of an intergovernmental task force on renewable energy established last year by Gov. Jerry Brown. Speaking during an April 12 webinar on the U.S. offshore wind road map presented by Wind Energy Update, Douglas said that the task force met once last October, and will meet again in July with a goal of identifying an offshore area that could be the focus of a call for information and nominations by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

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