offshore wind energy

Newport-based researchers halfway through four-year study how offshore wind turbines might affect sea life

September 26, 2024

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews For Lisa Ballance and her Oregon State University colleagues, it’s two years down and two to go in their ambitious effort to help federal regulators figure out where to most safely and effectively place huge offshore wind turbines off the wind-rich Oregon and California coasts. Ballance’s team has wrapped up the sixth and final visual survey

Despite opposition, federal agency will auction two wind energy sites off southern Oregon coast in October

August 29, 2024

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle The Biden administration will seek bids on developing two wind energy sites off Oregon’s southern coast in October. The announcement Thursday followed an environmental assessment of the sites off Coos Bay and Brookings by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The analysis found the sites would pose “no significant” impact on people or the

Three Oregon congressional members ask feds for more comment time on offshore wind energy sites

March 14, 2024

By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Three of Oregon’s congressional members are pushing the federal government to extend the comment period on two proposed wind power projects off the southern Oregon Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced last month it was moving forward with plans for offshore wind power installations off Coos Bay and Brookings. As a first step,