Wind turbine pioneers
We must go almost 30 years in the past to see first wind turbines rising in North America. The first turbines were built in Tehachapi in early 1980s and were 13 to 18 meters tall and were producing only 25 to 60 kilowatts. Today’s turbines stand 120m to 180 meters and produce 1 to 3 megawatts of current.
Even then, in early 1908s there were several companies using wind turbines to produce energy. The biggest difference from new age turbines and pioneers were in capacity and less impact to surrounding nature.
Tehachapi has been responsible for impact on alternative energy on national and global level since the Tehachapi-based turbine manufacturer became a major turbine manufacturer across United States. Those first turbines were a big catalyst for man projects including Coram Ridge, Windstar and Alta I-V.
The Windstar project expected to eventually comprise 1750 to 2000 turbines and is expected to out perform largest wind farm in the world, located in Texas.
Today are ongoing projects of re-powering smaller with bigger, energy efficient turbines so it is expected the production of more energy from the new ones. Tehachapi region will grow in the near future to about 5000 megawatts of capacity and after that will continue rising to the capacity of 10000 megawatts by the year 2040.
This region can be example how to smartly use green energy, not only wind but the all available energy.
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