Faqs

With the passage of the California SB-350, the retirement of coal generation, aging gas-fired, biomass, and nuclear generation, coupled with a growing demand for electricity in the transportation [...]

Over the last 30 years, the cost of energy from land-based wind farms has fallen steadily as technology and construction methods have improved. These accomplishments lead to the reduction of wind [...]

The Morro Bay Offshore project will require a ready workforce ranging from engineers, offshore construction personnel, technicians and tugboat operators to support project execution and [...]

Once is service, we expect the Morro Bay Offshore operations and maintenance personnel to live locally and work and service the project from nearby shore-based facilities. Due to the size of the [...]

All large land and ocean renewable energy projects impact the biosphere to some extent. Floating offshore wind projects are among the most environmentally friendly in generating electricity from [...]

The Morro Bay Offshore project team has been engaged in dialogue with the Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen Organization (MBCFO) since the project inception in mid 2015.  Based on the inputs from [...]

Offshore wind is the wind resource available off the US coastline in the open ocean and the Great Lakes.  Offshore wind resources are abundant, strong and blow more consistently than most [...]

Morro Bay Offshore is a floating offshore wind farm that is planned to deliver 650 megawatts of clean, renewable energy to the California.  On January 14, 2016 Trident Winds submitted an [...]

The gross size of the requested project site area is 106.17 sq mi (275.04 km2 or 67,962 ac).  The final site area will be significantly smaller and will be finalized following the completion of [...]

All three top turbine suppliers – GE, Siemens and MHI-Vestas have commercially available offshore wind turbine generators (OWTG)s larger than 8 MW, with GE leading the industry with a 12 MW [...]