What is the Alta Wind Energy Center?
The Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) is located in the heart of one of the most proven wind resources in the United States – the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area. Terra-Gen is developing the AWEC, California’s largest wind energy project, adjacent to existing wind projects between the towns of Mojave and Tehachapi. Due to a welcoming community and the participation of a diverse group of landowners (private and public, local and non-local, large and small), the AWEC has a strong foundation for success. The AWEC will be comprised of several distinct projects and will utilize the same wind resource that has powered thousands of turbines for the past two decades. In addition to a proven wind resource, in 2006, the AWEC executed a 1,550 megawatt (MW) power contract to sell clean, renewable wind energy to Southern California Edison. The AWEC also secured priority access to a new transmission line that was completed at the end of 2009. Access to transmission and a market to sell wind power a
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