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The Tehachapi Wind Resource Area is a net exporter of generation to other parts of the state of California. A state initiative to upgrade the transmission out of Tehachapi (the 4.5 GW Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project) began in 2008 and was completed by 2016. [5] This has opened the door to further regional wind power development up to ...
The Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Pass in 1869. The mountain pass acts as a venturi effect to air moving between ocean and desert, increasing wind speed. [5]The area east and south of the pass is home to the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, and to the west is Alta Wind Energy Center, some of California's larger wind farms.
In Huntington, a wind gust of 70 mph (110 km/h) was recorded; which was the second highest wind gust ever recorded at that station. [297] In Illinois, Helene's remnants produced heavy rains and high winds, causing several thousand outages. [298] The waves on Lake Michigan were as high as 10 ft (3.0 m). [299]
As of 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, the storm was about 500 miles from Tampa, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 80 m.p.h.
Wind Harvest says recent modeling suggests that by capturing wind 15 to 100 feet above the ground, instead of hundreds, it may be able to nearly triple the power output of the Tehachapi Wind ...
Sassafras Mountain in Pickens County saw top wind speeds of 73 mph during Hurricane Helene, marking the highest rate of wind in South Carolina. Greenville-Spartanburg recorded 68 mph winds due to ...
Further inland, several weather stations reported hurricane-force winds. The Weather Bureau office in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported maximum sustained winds of 88 mph (142 km/h) and a peak gust of 135 mph (217 km/h), exceeding the previous record for fastest measured wind speed of 98 mph (158 km/h) set during Hurricane Hazel in 1954. [1]
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).