Upcoming events
POWC Offshore Wind Webinar Series
Thursday, July 10: Permitting for Offshore Wind Port Infrastructure Projects
- When: Thursday, July 10, from 2:30-4:30 pm (Pacific)
- Where: Online webinar — register now
This webinar will describe the key findings from our recently published report, Permitting for Port Infrastructure to Support Offshore Wind in California, and discuss permitting requirements for staging and integration sites, including those relating to Tribal consultation and public engagement. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with staff from the California State Lands Commission and California Coastal Commission to discuss each agency’s role in permitting these types of projects.
The webinar is free and open to the public. Learn more and register here.
For questions or accessibility requests, contact schatzenergy@humboldt.edu or call 707-826-4345.
Monday, May 12: What does it take to grid-connect offshore? Cable Laying and Monitoring at PacWave
- When: Monday, May 12 from 2:00-4:00 pm (Pacific)
- Where: Online webinar — register now
Presented by Dan Hellin, Director of the PacWave wave energy test facility, and Sarah Henkel, Associate Director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center at Oregon State University
PacWave is a state-of-the-art, pre-permitted, grid-connected, wave energy test facility. It is being developed in partnership with the US Department of Energy, the State of Oregon, Oregon State University, and local stakeholders. The open ocean test site consists of four berths, which occupy two square nautical miles of ocean with a cable to shore of approximately 12 miles in length (for each berth). Drilling for cable conduits began in summer 2021 and cable laying was completed in fall 2024; however, permitting and cable procurement started long before that. This webinar will describe the cabling process, including pre-installation environmental surveys and post-installation monitoring. Register here to attend (and to receive an update when the recording is available).
For questions or accessibility requests, contact schatzenergy@humboldt.edu or call 707-826-4345.
This webinar is being hosted by the Pacific Offshore Wind Consortium (POWC, pronounced pow-sea), which is a joint effort between three research centers: the Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, the Pacific Marine Energy Center at Oregon State University, and the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Recordings
Schatz Center Research
California offshore wind
- West Coast Perspectives on Ocean Renewable Energy: video recording and slide deck (February 2025)
- Offshore wind and transmission infrastructure in northwestern CA: video recording and slide deck (March 2024)
- Transmission Alternatives (May 2022)
- Energy Production and Delivery, and Economic Development (September 2020)
- Ecological and Geological Environment (September 2020)
- Port and Coastal Infrastructure (September 2020)
- Community Perspectives on Regional Impacts and Opportunities (October 2020)
- Reflections and Next Steps
(October 2020)
Microgrids and resiliency
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid Grand Opening Celebration (June 2022)
- Local Governments Leading the Way through Resilient Microgrids (Statewide Energy Efficient Collaborative, September 2020)
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid: Advancing a resilient and clean energy future (Clean Coalition, September 2020)
- Innovations of the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid (Cal CCA, April 2020)
Off-grid energy access
- IEC quality standards for pico-solar products & SHS kits (VeraSol, May 2020)
Sustainable Futures
- Preparing frontline communities for climate disruption: Lessons from community-embedded research – Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (November 2, 2022)
- Children’s fundamental rights and the climate crisis: the call for judicial branch engagement – Andrea Rodgers (April 28, 2022)
- What can we still do? – Bill McKibben (October 7, 2021)
- Building a net zero energy system that protects biodiversity – Grace Wu (September 23, 2021)
- Cántaro Azul: An organization’s journey to contribute to the human right to water and sanitation in rural Mexico – Fermín Reygadas (March 18, 2021)
- Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: from reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis – Myles Lennon (October 29, 2020)
- Redwood Coast telecommunications resilience – Karen Eckersley and Jana Ganion (October 22, 2020)
- Safer breathing: reducing the risk of airborne COVID 19 infection – Mark Nicas (September 3, 2020)
- Thwaites Glacier Research: On board the Nathaniel B Palmer -Julia Wellner, Al Hickey, and Tim McGovern (July 29, 2020)
Additional Sustainable Futures recordings are available here…
