The US BOEM has announced the long anticipated 1st California Floating Wind Lease Round, starting on December 6.
The areas on lease are the Humboldt and Morro Bay lease areas, totaling 373,267 acres ( 1,510 square kms).
BOEM ran the required procedures leading to 84 interested companies and finalized a list of 34 eligible bidders, each of which can eventually win only one single area.
547 Energy / AEUG Offshore / Algonquin Power Fund (America) / Arevia Power / Avangrid Renewables / BP US Offshore Wind / California North Floating / California Offshore Wind Dev / California South Floating / Castle Wind / Central California Offshore Wind / Cademo / Cierco Project Corporation / Clearway Renew / Corio OSW / CPV Offshore Wind / EDF Renewables Development / EDPR Offshore North America / Equinor Wind US / Ferrovial Energy / GW Offshore Wind / Hexicon USA / Ideol USA / Invenergy California / JERA Renewables / Marubeni Power America / Orsted North America / Pacific Moon Offshore Wind / Pacific Offshore Wind / Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) / Redwood Coast Offshore Wind / RWE Renewables Dev / RWE Offshore Wind Holdings / Seaglass Offshore Wind I / Seaglass Offshore Wind II / Shell New Energies / SSE Renewables / North America Offshore / TotalLEnergies Renewables USA / US Mainstream Renewable Power / wpd Offshore
This lease round has been anticipated for a long time, now that it is here, the suypply chain will find sifficient proof that these developments 4.5 GW will proceed, allowing the planning of investment and construction of the required infrastructure and workforce training. With the areas total capacity of 4.5GW
a fleet of some 200-300 floating wind units (FTUs) will have to be designed, built and installed in 800-1,200 meters water depth. The export cabling, infield array cable quantites and lengths can be derived from the various Q Vision modules. The projected projects’ plannig with supply chain tender windows can be found in the Supply Chain Opportunities (SCO) module and will be updated with every phase of each development.