BOEM analyzing mitigation for California wind projects

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November 13, 2024

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management opened bidding Dec. 6, 2022 on 373.267 acres of federal waters off California for offshore wind energy development. BOEM graphic.

The offshore wind industry may be on edge with Donald Trump’s election, and his campaign promise to kill their projects. But the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy presses on.

BOEM officials announced Wednesday the start of a 90-day public comment period on the agency’s “regional environmental analysis of potential mitigation measures on future development activities for five offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts. “

A notice of the California Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) will publish in the Federal Register on Nov. 14, starting the comment period. Leases totaling over 373,268 acres have potential to produce over 4.6 GW of offshore wind energy, enough to power over 1.5 million…

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