Sites of five offshore wind leases awarded to companies off the coast of California (American Clean Power/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) There are no plans to develop offshore wind projects in ...

Farther east, the Ocotillo Wind project covers 12,500 acres in the Imperial Valley. But a bigger prize looms offshore. Ocean winds blow steadier and stronger than breezes on land and states like ...

In Santa Barbara County, a “possible sinkhole” closed part of Highway 1 south of Lompoc as an atmospheric river storm hit the ...

The potential environmental effects of the California projects are unknown, especially since no other floating wind farms have been built in such deep ocean waters so far from shore. Developers ...