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Surrounded by some of the world’s most productive seas, the U.K. generates more electricity from offshore wind than any other country. 
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The global potential of tidal and wave power is tremendous, and major projects are underway worldwide. On the coast of California, two companies vying for a shuttered natural gas plant's transmission lines offer the latest indication of an industry coming of age.
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Offshore wind power facilities are becoming more common but a California effort faces hurdles.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While the points made about engineering challenges of deepwater, anti-wind activists, etc. are true, we are leaving out the massive challenge that is permitting in the waters off California. Many tidal projects off the California coast have all been killed by permitting. Hence we have tidal projects going in off of Oregon and Baja California, but not here (even though these are designed in the halls and computers of California firms).
Our soon to be shuttered offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel are one potential source of help in this deepwater environment. To be sure, these are enough of a platform, but they could be parts/nodes of a wider array of ocean-based energy production.
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