Dagher speaks to San Diego Union-Tribune about offshore wind in California
The San Diego Union-Tribune interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Laboratory, about the challenges of developing offshore wind in California. “You’re looking at some places where you’re in 2,000 or 3,000 feet of water. The East Coast leases off New York were less than 150 feet of water,” Dagher said. Still, Dagher said that wind can complement the abundant supply of solar in California “because offshore wind [production] typically is better in the wintertime and solar is better in the summertime. And at nighttime, of course, you don’t have [any production from] solar but you can have a lot of good offshore wind.” The Victoria Advocate and The Paradise News shared the San Diego Union-Tribune report.