In January, officials at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received an unsolicited proposal for a major project.  The plan — to build 100 floating wind turbines in the Pacific Ocean, 35 miles off the coast of Morrow Bay, and send 650 MW of power via undersea cable to an existing utility connection at Morrow Bay, about half-way between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  The estimated cost of the project was $3.2 billion.

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