Welcome to POTS

Welcome to the information page for POTS, the Pacific Offshore Transmission Solutions forum. This page serves as the POTS' communications hub, including an archive of past meetings, document repository, and more.

Note: this page is still under development. Please contact us if you have ideas or requests to make this space more useful to you and others.

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Background

In May 2021, POET assembled a group of advisers to assist in establishing a forum where interested parties could share information, discuss, and potentially act on future development of offshore transmission infrastructure to access northern California and southern Oregon offshore wind resources. The initial group recommended that POET initiate a forum with an organizational framework that will: 1) provide sufficient formal structure to support fruitful initial discussions and engagement, and 2) anticipate the likely future need to pivot and grow as the OSW industry develops and opportunities for action emerge. POET has subsequently initiated the Pacific Offshore Transmission Solutions (POTS) Forum, and prior to that the establishment of a steering committee tasked with guiding the formation and direction of the POTS Forum..

POTS Mission

The purpose of the POTS Forum is to provide a mechanism for key parties to share information, facilitate discussion, and potentially act with regard to opportunities, obstacles and solutions associated with future development of shared offshore transmission infrastructures in southern Oregon and northern California.

Document Archive

POTS Meetings Archive

May 31, 2023

November 15, 2022

Meeting Agenda
OR/CA OSW Project Update slide deck (courtesy Travis Douville / PNNL)

June 29, 2022

April 6, 2022

April 6 Slide deck

February 23, 2022

November 10, 2021

August 25, 2021

 

More videos will be added here as they become available.

Photo Gallery

Do you have photos you'd like to share with the group? Please send them to us and we'll add them here.