The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has published a draft environmental review of potential mitigation measures on future development activities for 5 offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts. The full development of these leases totalling over 373,000 acres (over 1,510 km2) has the potential to produce over 4.6 GW of offshore wind energy, enough to power over 1.5 million homes. The new projects would support California's target to reach 25 GW of offshore wind by 2045. The California Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is open to consultation for a 90-day period.
Under the current administration, which aims at deploying 30 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035, the Department of the Interior has approved ten offshore wind projects totalling more than 15 GW, enough to power nearly 5.25 million homes. It has also held six offshore wind lease auctions, including a record-breaking sale offshore New York and New Jersey and the first-ever sales offshore the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts.
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