California And U.S. Reach Agreement Allowing Big Offshore Wind Farms The agreement allows for hundreds of floating turbines far off the California coast. BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and the U.S. government announced an agreement Tuesday to open up areas off the state’s central and northern coasts to the first commercial wind energy farms on the Pacific Coast. The pact that would float hundreds of turbines off the coast of Morro Bay and Humboldt Bay was touted as a breakthrough to eventually power 1.6 million homes and help the state and federal government reach ambitious climate change goals through clean energy production.