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
Publication: Wind Harvest InternationalYear Published: 2023 Wind Harvest analyzed the Solano Wind Resource Area using publicly available location information and UL’s Windnavigator. The report concluded that the area could add 4,989 MWs of Wind Harvester type turbines to the existing 1,021 MWs of propeller-type turbines currently installed. Based on the mid-level wind speeds in the zone, this level…
Author: Wind Harvest InternationalYear Published: 2023 This resource contains diurnal wind speed information for Solano County, as well as diurnal wind and solar energy outputs. Wind speed data was derived from wind speeds recorded at Travis Air Force Base. The material included in the linked document is protected by Creative Commons BY-SA copyright.
Publication: California Energy Commission Wind speed map at 100m
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…
Author: SECOR International IncorporatedPublication: SMUDYear Published: 2005 This report summarizes and documents operation of the doppler miniSODAR lower boundary layer wind monitoring system installed and operated at the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) Montezuma Hills Station. It also summarizes the data collected at the station during the period May 29 through June 28 of 2004.…
Author: Dave Johnston, Judd Howell, Scott Terrill, Nellie Thorngate, Jim Castle, Jeff SmithPublication: California Energy CommissionYear Published: 2013 Birds and bats have become important factors in the siting and permitting of wind-energy facilities. Identifying methods to avoid, minimize, and mitigate bird and bat fatalities should help streamline wind energy permitting and reduce potential impacts to…
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…