As capital costs for offshore wind rapidly decrease and floating platform technologies come online, the northern coast of California is emerging as a promising site for the first offshore wind farm in the eastern...
Category - Offshore wind
Maia Cheli
A public session on offshore wind and California fisheries and wildlife (5/3)
On Friday, May 3, experts from natural resource and energy agencies, the wind industry, and fisheries and environmental groups will gather in Eureka to discuss how fisheries and wildlife might coexist with offshore wind...
Schatz Center
Lecture: California offshore wind – the challenges of “high road” climate policy (4/11)
5:30 pm Thursday, April 11 in Founders Hall 118 Planning is underway to site huge floating wind farms along California’s coast, including offshore Humboldt County, to help the state reach its goals of 100 percent...
New California offshore wind report from the American Jobs Project
The American Jobs Project released a report today on California’s developing offshore wind energy sector. The Schatz Center’s offshore wind team provided technical review comments on a pre-publication draft...
Northern CA coast offshore wind feasibility study
On October 25, the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University was awarded a grant from the California Ocean Protection Council (a division of the California Department of Natural Resources), to study the...
Mark Severy
Student research developments: summer 2018
This summer, thirteen students contributed to Schatz Center research projects in smart grids, bioenergy, wind, and off-grid energy access. SMART GRIDS Craig Mitchell provided construction observation at the Solar+...
