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Who is developing the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal?

There is not yet a developer/operator for the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal (1), which is a project of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation & Conservation District (Harbor District). Work so far on environmental design and permitting has been completed by Moffatt & Nichol, an American infrastructure advising firm.

A schematic of the Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal with dry and wet turbine storage.

Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal.

Source: Humboldt Bay Harbor District (2)

In October 2022, the Harbor District entered into an exclusive right to negotiate (3) with Crowley Wind Services (4) to develop and operate the terminal, but the company and the District allowed that agreement to expire (5) at the end of March 2024. In April, the Harbor District published a Request for Qualifications (6) requesting Statements of Qualifications from qualified firms for a grant-funded project to complete permitting and 30% project design. In June 2024, the Harbor District selected Moffatt & Nichol for this part of the project, as well. Since the agreement with Crowley expired, the Harbor District intends to release a new RFP for either a terminal operator, developer, or both in 2024.

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So far, funding for the heavy lift marine terminal has come from a series of grants:

References​

  1. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District. (2024). Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal Project. https://humboldtbay.org/humboldt-bay-offshore-wind-heavy-lift-marine-terminal-project-3 

  2. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District. (2023, May 3). Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Multipurpose Marine Terminal Project – Draft Project Description. https://humboldtbay.org/sites/humboldtbay.org/files/Marine%20Terminal%20-%20ProjectDescription%20-%202023%200510.pdf 

  3. Crowley. (2022, October 27). Crowley, Humboldt Bay to Develop and Operate California Wind Terminal. www.crowley.com/news-and-media/press-releases/humboldt-bay-wind/

  4. Crowley Wind Services. (n.d.). www.crowley.com/wind/ 

  5. Burns, R. (2024, March 6). Crowley Wind Services’s Partner Agreement With the Harbor District Will Expire Without a Lease, Leaving Future Relationship Unclear. Lost Coast Outpost. https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/mar/6/partner-agreement-between-harbor-district-and-crow/

  6. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District. (2024, April 2.) Request for Qualifications: Redwood Marine Offshore Wind and Heavy Lift Multipurpose Terminal: Final Permitting and 30% Design Project. https://humboldtbay.org/sites/humboldtbay.org/files/HBHRCD_MultipurposeTerminal-RFQ-PIDP23_v4.pdf 

  7. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District. (2023). FY 2023 Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) Grant Application Project Narrative. https://humboldtbay.org/sites/humboldtbay.org/files/Humboldt%20POWERED%20FY2023%20PIDP%20Proposal%20%28excludes%20KMZ%20files%29_reducedfilesize.pdf 

  8. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District. (2023, August 21). Application to Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity (MPDG) Program Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind MVP (Minimum Viable Port) Project Description. https://humboldtbay.org/sites/humboldtbay.org/files/FY%202023-24%20MPDG%20Humboldt%20Bay%20Offshore%20Wind%20MVP%20Proposal%20Package_reducedfilesize.pdf

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