A Seattle-based wind energy developer submitted a proposal this week to develop the largest offshore wind farm on the West Coast, seeking to take advantage of a technology for floating turbines that has not yet found a home in the United States.
Apr. 11 Offshore wind energy on the Pacific Ocean has long been dismissed as a pipe dream due to the abrupt drop-off along the edges of its continental shelf. But floating wind turbines could change that. Trident Winds, a wind energy developer based in Seattle, submitted an unsolicited lease request Monday to the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management to build a floating