The Mitigation Agreement that Floventis Energy signed with the DoD this week creates a series of de-confliction protocols for the project’s wind turbines to operate in the busy airspace used by Vandenberg’s space launches. Under the agreement, the DoD and Air Force also commit to file non-objection letters with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other federal and state agencies to green-light CADEMO’s permitting process.

“This agreement is a big step, both for our project and for the California offshore wind industry” , said Mikael Jakobsson , Director of Floventis Energy. “The military has many complex operational needs here, and that’s why it took two years of negotiations to hammer out this deal. It helps create a testing and verification process to ensure that offshore renewable energy can coexist with national security”.