The Bureau of Ocean Vitality Administration (BOEM) has opened a public remark interval relating to the regional environmental evaluation centered on potential mitigation measures associated to the event of 5 offshore wind lease areas alongside California’s central and northern coasts.
The Discover of Availability (NOA) for the California Draft Programmatic Environmental Impression Assertion (PEIS) was printed within the Federal Register on November 14, commencing a 90-day remark interval.
BOEM estimates that the great improvement of those leases, protecting a complete of 373,268 acres, might generate as much as 4.6 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power.
“BOEM seeks enter from a various array of stakeholders as we try to fulfill President Biden’s clear power goals, that are vital to the welfare of the American public,” acknowledged BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein.
“The general public’s suggestions on our evaluation will inform the mitigation of future offshore wind power improvement throughout numerous lease areas off California. We consider this holistic regional method will improve efficiencies within the environmental evaluations of particular wind power tasks whereas safeguarding our ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity.”
In 2022, BOEM carried out an public sale that garnered $757 million for the rights to 5 offshore California lease areas, marking the primary U.S. lease areas designated for potential floating offshore wind improvement.
This represents solely the second occasion through which BOEM has carried out a regional evaluation regarding offshore renewable power improvement and operations spanning a number of lease areas. This extra step to organize a PEIS was taken because of the proximity of the 5 lease areas and is aligned with BOEM’s timeline for reviewing upcoming mission proposals.
The Draft PEIS assesses programmatic methods for avoidance, minimization, mitigation, and monitoring that BOEM may impose as circumstances for the approval of any future proposed offshore wind tasks in California.
Subsequent environmental analyses particular to every proposed wind power mission will construct upon this programmatic evaluate as soon as BOEM receives particular person mission plans from the present leaseholders.
The Bureau of Ocean Vitality Administration (BOEM) has opened a public remark interval relating to the regional environmental evaluation centered on potential mitigation measures associated to the event of 5 offshore wind lease areas alongside California’s central and northern coasts.
The Discover of Availability (NOA) for the California Draft Programmatic Environmental Impression Assertion (PEIS) was printed within the Federal Register on November 14, commencing a 90-day remark interval.
BOEM estimates that the great improvement of those leases, protecting a complete of 373,268 acres, might generate as much as 4.6 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power.
“BOEM seeks enter from a various array of stakeholders as we try to fulfill President Biden’s clear power goals, that are vital to the welfare of the American public,” acknowledged BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein.
“The general public’s suggestions on our evaluation will inform the mitigation of future offshore wind power improvement throughout numerous lease areas off California. We consider this holistic regional method will improve efficiencies within the environmental evaluations of particular wind power tasks whereas safeguarding our ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity.”
In 2022, BOEM carried out an public sale that garnered $757 million for the rights to 5 offshore California lease areas, marking the primary U.S. lease areas designated for potential floating offshore wind improvement.
This represents solely the second occasion through which BOEM has carried out a regional evaluation regarding offshore renewable power improvement and operations spanning a number of lease areas. This extra step to organize a PEIS was taken because of the proximity of the 5 lease areas and is aligned with BOEM’s timeline for reviewing upcoming mission proposals.
The Draft PEIS assesses programmatic methods for avoidance, minimization, mitigation, and monitoring that BOEM may impose as circumstances for the approval of any future proposed offshore wind tasks in California.
Subsequent environmental analyses particular to every proposed wind power mission will construct upon this programmatic evaluate as soon as BOEM receives particular person mission plans from the present leaseholders.
