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The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project is a project involving the construction of approximately of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines for transmission of electricity from
The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project is a project involving the construction of approximately of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines for transmission of electricity from wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turb ...
s and other generating units in southeastern Kern County, California
Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield.
Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county s ...
to Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County
San Bernardino County (), officially the County of San Bernardino, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 2,181, ...
.
The project, developed and operated by Southern California Edison
Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of ap ...
, commenced construction on March 7, 2008 and was completed and placed in operation in December 2016. With a capacity of 4,500 megawatts
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James Wat ...
, the transmission system can provide power for an estimated 3 million homes.
It passes through sections of the Tehachapi Mountains
The Tehachapi Mountains (; Kawaiisu: ''Tihachipia'', meaning "hard climb") are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States. The range extends for approximately in southern Kern County and northwe ...
, Sierra Pelona Mountains
The Sierra Pelona, also known as the Sierra Pelona Ridge or the Sierra Pelona Mountains, is a mountain ridge in the Transverse Ranges in Southern California. Located in northwest Los Angeles County, the ridge is bordered on the north by the San An ...
, and Antelope Valley
The Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi, Sierra Pelona, and t ...
.
State laws requiring SCE to provide at least 33% of its power service from renewable sources by 2020 is driving the project. SCE had no interest in owning the land that the project is on, but needed to construct the transmission system nonetheless to meet the renewable source laws.Southern California Edison Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project Renewable Energy Projects.
See also
* Hope for the Hills *List of wind farms in the United States
This is a list of large wind farms in the United States. Many of the wind farms in the United States are located in the Great Plains.
Onshore wind farms
Listed are wind farms with a generating capacity of at least 150 megawatts (MW) or any ...
* Tehachapi Wind Resource Area
References
External links
* * tp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/gopher-data/environ/tehachapi_renewables/TRTP.htm California Public Utilities Commission page for the TRTP {{Wind power in the United States Energy infrastructure in California Electric power transmission systems in the United States Southern California Edison Buildings and structures in Kern County, California Buildings and structures in Los Angeles County, California Sierra Pelona Ridge R 2016 establishments in California