A new study shows the massive port infrastructure that could come to the Central Coast to support proposed floating offshore wind energy developments.
The $250,000, seven-month-long study, which was released Thursday, was prepared by engineering consulting firm Mott MacDonald, commissioned by economic development think tank REACH Central Coast and funded by San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County and the city of Morro Bay.
Over 170 pages, the study shows how San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties could industrialize some areas of their shorelines to provide adequate ports where floating wind turbines would be assembled and maintained. The study also notes how the region could expand the Vandenberg boat dock to better support the commercial space industry.
Greater port infrastructure along the Central Coast is needed because the federal government has proposed using a 376-square-mile area of the Pacific Ocean about 20 miles off the coast of San Simeon and Cambria for floating offshore wind energy development.
In a Dec. 6 auction, three companies bid a collective $425.6 million to emerge as leaseholders for three leases.
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