To the editor: Simply because the Pacific was important in transporting miners within the rush for gold and has been key to our state’s and our nation’s epic transoceanic commerce, it may well now usher in our subsequent Gold Rush within the type of offshore wind energy.
Kudos to Michelle Solomon and Taylor McNair for reminding readers that this type of clear, renewable power blowing alongside our coast wants solely to be harnessed with floating wind generators and transmitted through infrastructure to our inhabitants facilities, facilitated by Inflation Discount Act monetary incentives.
The expertise is accessible, the seed cash to pay for the launch of this promising enterprise exists and the necessity for offshore wind power couldn’t be better because the local weather disaster ravages a lot of the world.
Gov. Newsom, that is your summons to even bolder local weather management.
Ginger Osborne, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: California stands to profit from cleaner air, good-paying jobs and dependable power with offshore wind expertise. However policymakers must go laws that locks in funding and assets for offshore wind to finally achieve our state.
California ought to begin by guaranteeing a market exists for the clear energy that offshore wind will create. To do this, the Legislature ought to go AB 1373. This piece of laws ensures central procurement for offshore wind, that means the Public Utilities Fee will begin requiring utilities and corporations servicing Californians’ electrical must have a various portfolio of unpolluted power sources — together with offshore wind.
Lawmakers must kick-start offshore wind in California, and so they can begin by passing AB 1373.
Dan Jacobson, Elk Grove, Calif.
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To the editor: I agree that California ought to turn out to be a pacesetter in constructing and deploying floating wind generators. And whereas we may also help this “nascent” expertise emerge, we shouldn’t watch for it to mature to deploy offshore wind.
There are numerous ugly oil platforms not far off the coast, significantly in Huntington Seashore and Lengthy Seashore. These are grounded. We must always deploy grounded wind generators at comparable depths and distances.
Murray Zichlinsky, Lengthy Seashore
