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$3 billion Tehachapi facility would be largest in nation
A massive wind power facility proposed for the Tehachapi area, if approved by state regulators, would become the largest project of its kind in the nation.
The $3 billion Alta Wind Energy Center would involve installing as many as 750 wind turbines over a 50-square-mile area east and south of Tehachapi. It would generate as much as 1,500 megawatts — more than twice the power of the largest existing wind energy facility in the United States. It also would more than double the wind energy produced in the Tehachapi area.
February 21, 2007
by Ryan Schuster, staff writer
in The Bakersfield Californian
A massive wind power facility proposed for the Tehachapi area, if approved by state regulators, would become the largest project of its kind in the nation.
The $3 billion Alta Wind Energy Center would involve installing as many as 750 wind turbines over a 50-square-mile area east and south of Tehachapi. It would generate as much as 1,500 megawatts — more than twice the power of the largest existing wind energy facility in the United States. It also would more than double the wind energy produced in the Tehachapi area.
An executive involved said the project would create more than... [continue via Web link]
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