Offshore Wind Turbines in California

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The state of California is home to 840accessible miles of coast line to the Pacific Ocean. In recent years, as technologies and climate change awareness have increased, the state of California have made a conscious effort to enhance and improve their usage of the coast in its application of renewable energy sources. The most effective form of renewable energy that California has used is taking advantage of the offshore wind. The major tool to capture off shore wind to harness renewable energy comes in the form of wind turbines. Most of which can be built to stand in shallow ocean water. With Californias pacific being much deeper, the turbines must be constructed on to floating stands that are able to absorb currents and other sorts of natural causes that otherwise may alter their movements.

In 2018, the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act was implemented into the state of California. This increased California’s goal of renewable energies to 60% by 2030 and a hopeful 100% by 2045. With oil resources becoming harder to capture and other things such as gas increasing in price, renewable energy sources are the trends of the future. One thing that will not change anytime soon is there being wind off of California’s coastline. If California gets to its goal of 100% by 2045, there will be no energy sources that produce carbon in hopes of altering the curve we viewed a few weeks ago.

 

https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/topics/renewable-energy/offshore-renewable-energy

 

https://www.energy.ca.gov/sb100

70 thoughts on “Offshore Wind Turbines in California”

  1. Offshore wind turbines have always seemed like a good idea to me. Your post reminds me of when MA was going to put offshore turbines around Nantucket and Martha’s Vinyard but residents complained that it would ruin their view and therefore the plans never went through. I personally find them beautiful to watch and they are affective, therefore I have never understood arguments such as this.

  2. Before reading this, I had never known just how effective wind is as a source of energy. I definitely now hope that California’s plan comes to fruition, as it would be a big step in the right direction towards making our country more sustainable.

  3. I didn’t know much about this type of energy, but it seems like an amazing idea. Hopefully more states will consider taking a sustainable initiative like California has!

  4. You picked a good topic, wind is a good form of renewable energy. But what happens when the wind isn’t blowing?