Summary of onshore wind farms Existing GWs of HAWT wind farms in state 6.4 GWs of HAWTs over 6.5m/s at 20m agl (projected) 5.5 % of wind farms over 6.5m/s at 20m agl 86% HAWT: Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine This data came from thewindpower.net and UL’s Windnavigator. Publication: Wind Harvest International Copyright: Creative Commons BY-SA
Author: Earl Davis and Ron NierenbergPublication: California Energy CommissionYear Published: 1980 The Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the California Energy Commission conducted a wind energy prospecting program in Northern California. Eight candidate areas were initially considered and qualitatively evaluated; two areas in the San Francisco Bay Area were selected for study. a total of…
Publication: NREL Wind Prospector
Publication: California Energy CommissionYear Published: 1985 Information found here was based on the California Energy Commission report, CEC Wind Atlas, April 1985. Most of the windspeed data was collected at <10m above ground level. The complete CEC Wind Atlas and its underlying reports can be found at the CEC’s main library at 1516 9th St, Sacramento,…
Publication: California Energy CommissionYear Published: 1985 Information found here was based on the California Energy Commission report, CEC Wind Atlas, April 1985. Most of the windspeed data was collected at <10m above ground level. The complete CEC Wind Atlas and its underlying reports can be found at the CEC’s main library at 1516 9th St, Sacramento,…
All of California’s wind farms–6000+ megawatts producing 15,200 gigawatt-hours (GWh) annually as of 2021–are on land already zoned for wind energy production. Wind Harvest estimates that, if fully built out on existing wind farms in the Wind Resource Areas, H-type vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) could add 10 GW of capacity and about 31,500 GWh of…