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Calif. Offshore Wind Will Require a Feat of Engineering. And That's Not Even the Hard Part


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The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Sept, 14, 2016.
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In January 2016, Trident Winds, a small, Seattle-based wind company, submitted an unsolicited application to the U.S. Department of the Interior, laying out its aspirations to build a 1-gigawatt wind farm off California’s central coast.
The scale was ambitious, especially for the United States. But Trident Winds’ chief executive officer, Alla Weinstein, sensed an opportunity.
“Effectively, that’s what kick-started the whole discussion on offshore wind in California,” Weinstein said of the application.
Years later, California’s waters still have no finalized leases for the development of any offshore wind farms. Instead, the state’s market has been bogged down by politics and technological hurdles. ....

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