This short synopsis of a report says that California offshore wind has a high 50% capacity factor and “could help solve California’s reliability problem”. But is California’s electricity unreliable? I didn’t think so.
What’s remarkable is that offshore wind is shown to be blowing steadily 24 hours; I’m sure there are times when the wind is calm but if there is a wind farm spread across a large area, will this guarantee that at least some part of the wind farm will have wind blowing all the time? How certain are they? If California depends on renewable resources, geothermal is running 24 hours a day. Is offshore wind that reliable?
