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Development of the wind farm began in the 1980s. [2] It is one of the first three major wind farm areas in California, along with those at Altamont and the Tehachapi passes. As of May 2024, the wind farm consists of 666 wind turbines with a total rated capacity of 628 MW, built as part of 26 projects. [3]
The wind farm is composed of 4,930 [2] relatively small wind turbines of various types, making it at one time the largest wind farm in the world in terms of capacity. Altamont Pass is still one of the largest concentration of wind turbines in the world, with a capacity of 576 megawatts (MW), producing about 125 MW on average and 1.1 terawatt ...
The wind farm's original construction schedule had phase I built between 2016 and 2019 and phase II from 2022–2023. [21] As of 2019, the wind farm was scheduled to be completed by 2026. There will be a transmission line to serve California. [22] It could help that state achieve its renewable energy targets by 2030. [10] [23]
CAISO tested the wind farm's synchronverter in 2018, and found it could perform some of the grid services similar or better than traditional generators. [29] [30] In February 2018, Scout Clean Energy of Colorado won the rights to modernize the Gonzaga Ridge wind farm which is located in Pacheco State Park. Rated at 16.5 megawatts, the Gonzaga ...
The Alta Wind Energy Center is a wind farm located in Tehachapi Pass of the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California. As of 2022, it is the largest wind farm in the United States, [ 1 ] with a combined installed capacity of 1,550 MW (2,080,000 hp).
In 2019, San Bernardino County Supervisors voted to ban the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land. A giant dump truck greets visitors in Boron ...
King Pine wind farm Maine: 1,000 [93] Clearwater wind farm Montana: 750 [94] High Banks Wind Farm (2023) Kansas: 600 [95] Young Wind Farm Texas: 500 [96] Chevelon Butte wind farm Arizona: 477 [97] Alle-Catt wind farm New York: 340 [98] Boswell Springs Wind Farm (2023) Wyoming: 331 [99] Thunderhead Wind Energy Nebraska: 300 [100] Seven Cowboy ...
The following table lists offshore wind farm areas (by nameplate capacity) that are in various states development for the Outer Continental Shelf in U.S. territorial waters of the East Coast of the United States, [31] where a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) wind energy area lease has been secured [32] [33] and have gained at least some ...