Offshore Booty
As for wave power, says the report, while the potential is high the technology is still too much in its infancy. Also, states may preside over the development of that resource.
Indeed, here in the Humboldt-Mendocino area, within state-governed waters (up to three miles off shore), Pacific Gas & Electric is pursuing an exploratory project called WaveConnect. It would set up two platforms, one in Mendocino and one in Humboldt, upon which a number of manufacturers could demonstrate their wave energy conversion devices. PG&E spokesman David Eisenhauer said Tuesday that the utility plans to file a draft license application for a small pilot project by spring 2010, following studies and public hearings. PG&E secured $4.8 million for the project in January from the California Public Utilities Commission, and will get another $1.2 million from the Department of Energy.
The PUC wasn’t so keen on another wave project that PG&E was involved in. Last October, it rejected a power purchase agreement between PG&E and British Columbia-based company Finavera to develop what would have been the U.S.’s first-ever wave energy project 2.5 miles off the coast of Eureka. The PUC said the technology was too new, and the project unviable. In February, Finavera gave up its preliminary permit with FERC for the project. The company has no further plans to pursue wave energy in this area, said a spokesman on Tuesday.
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STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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