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Power plant · Wind Retired

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1986
Net generation, 2012: 8,056 MWh
Location: Contra Costa County, California
Operated by: Northwind Energy IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2012

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Technology: Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
Age: 40 years since 1986

1 attribute from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Gem	Unit ids G100001019943 Location id L100001017954 Eia plant ids 10738

Retirement

Retired: December 2012
Capacity retired: 13 MW
Generators retired: 1

Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
Generator	Technology	Nameplate	State	Date
GEN1	Onshore Wind Turbine	13 MW	Retired	December 2012

Grid

Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)

Las Positas - Lone Tree 230 kV 230 kV · 0.0 mi
Cayetano 230 kV line 230 kV · 3.7 mi
Lawrence Livermore - Tracy 230 kV 230 kV · 6.5 mi
Vacadixon 500 kV line 500 kV · 6.5 mi
Table Mt 500 kV line 500 kV · 6.6 mi
Cayetano 230 kV line 230 kV · 6.8 mi
Lone Tree 230 kV line 230 kV · 7.2 mi
Tracy 230 kV line 230 kV · 8.5 mi
Tracy 230 kV line 230 kV · 8.5 mi
Tracy 115 kV line 115 kV · 8.6 mi

Connection points within 15 mi (4)

Pittsburg-Tesla 230kV line CAISO · 230 kV · 1 request nearby, nearest 5.1 mi
Delta Switching Yard-Tesla 230 kV Line CAISO · 230 kV · 1 request nearby, nearest 8.9 mi
Contra Costa Substation 230kV bus CAISO · 230 kV · 1 request nearby, nearest 11.4 mi
Tesla 230 kV CAISO · 230 kV · 1 request nearby, nearest 12.7 mi

Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Timeline

Dec 2012 Stated Unit GEN1 scheduled to retire, 13 MW · EIA-860M
1986 In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · CAISO · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
CAISOOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Source: California ISO
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

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Around this plant

Nearby

Projects within 15 mi, nearest first.
Project	Kind	Away	MW
Buena Vista Energy LLC Postponed	Storage	4.3 mi	100
Tres Vaqueros Wind Farms LLC Withdrawn	Wind	5.1 mi	28.3
Aramis I Solar Project × 2 units Under construction	Storage	6.9 mi	200
Rooney Ranch Filed	Wind	8.5 mi	21
Sand Hill C Contracted	Wind	8.9 mi	80.8
Sand Hill B Filed	Wind	9.5 mi	17
Sand Hill A Filed	Wind	9.6 mi	13.5
Oakley Generating Station Withdrawn	Gas, combined cycle	11.4 mi	672.3
TESLA Power Project Postponed	Gas, combined cycle	12.1 mi	1,322
Mulqueeney Wind Energy Under construction	Wind	12.7 mi	80
NorCal FPV 1 (Pond 2) Under construction	Solar	12.8 mi	1.8
NorCal FPV 1 Under construction	Solar	12.8 mi	10
Pittsburg RV Solar Under construction	Solar	13.2 mi	2.8
Bishop Ranch - BR 3-GG Under construction	Solar + storage	13.7 mi	1.9
Bishop Ranch - BR 3-FF Under construction	Solar + storage	13.7 mi	1.4
Bishop Ranch - BR 3-HH Under construction	Solar + storage	13.7 mi	1.4

Sources EIA-860M · CAISO

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
CAISOOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Source: California ISO

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