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Few dispute the need to develop alternative ways to generate electricity that don't produce greenhouse gases, but our local response to a proposed floating offshore wind farm isn't a straightforward "yes." Similar complications arise regarding floating wind turbines off the southern Oregon coast. These prompted the Astoria City Council and the Port of Astoria Commission to

The project is called Olympic Wind and is the product of Washington-based offshore wind developer Trident Winds. The proposal aims to generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity that could power approximately 800,000 homes. The wind farm would be located 43 miles off the coast of Grays Harbor County...

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A Seattle-based wind energy developer submitted a proposal this week to develop the largest offshore wind farm on the West Coast, seeking to take advantage of a technology for floating turbines that has not yet found a home in the United States.

"A company is proposing to build what could be the West Coast’s biggest floating offshore wind farm, suggesting the expansion of a technology that has yet to find footing in the U.S."

The plan filed with the Interior Department envisions the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in Washington state.

Apr. 11—Offshore wind energy on the Pacific Ocean has long been dismissed as a pipe dream due to the abrupt drop-off along the edges of its continental shelf. But floating wind turbines could change that. Trident Winds, a wind energy developer based in Seattle, submitted an unsolicited lease request Monday to the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management to build a floating

A Seattle-based offshore wind developer, Trident Winds, is continuing to push the U.S. Department of...