"A company is proposing to build what could be the West Coast’s biggest floating offshore wind farm, suggesting the expansion of a technology that has yet to find footing in the U.S.
Known as Olympic Wind, the project’s outlines were presented by Washington-based Trident Winds in an unsolicited request for a federal lease in late March. The proposal could include up to 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough for about 800,000 homes, produced from turbines mounted on platforms and moored to the deep ocean floor about 43 miles off the coast of Grays Harbor County, Wash.
Trident’s request, filed with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), envisions the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in Washington. At 2,000 MW, it would be larger than any publicly disclosed planned project on the West Coast if constructed."
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