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Tehachapi Wind Resource I
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 16% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1984
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,303 MWh
- Grid
- 12 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- CalWind Resources IncSourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 12,303
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 41,977
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 16.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- Not stated
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,303 | 41,977 | 16.1% | — |
| 2024 | 14,117 | 48,167 | 18.5% | — |
| 2023 | 12,609 | 43,021 | 16.5% | — |
| 2022 | 14,005 | 47,782 | 18.4% | — |
| 2021 | 15,163 | 134,102 | 19.9% | — |
| 2020 | 13,800 | 120,984 | 18.1% | — |
| 2019 | 14,038 | 125,007 | 18.4% | — |
| 2018 | 14,337 | 130,525 | 18.8% | — |
| 2017 | 14,072 | 129,646 | 18.5% | — |
| 2016 | 15,248 | 140,769 | 20.0% | — |
| 2015 | 12,097 | 112,730 | 15.9% | — |
| 2014 | 13,895 | 132,141 | 18.2% | — |
| 2013 | 13,228 | 126,209 | 17.4% | — |
| 2012 | 14,343 | 136,488 | 18.8% | — |
| 2011 | 15,402 | 149,646 | 20.2% | — |
| 2010 | 15,915 | 155,267 | 20.9% | — |
| 2009 | 15,125 | 147,620 | 19.9% | — |
| 2008 | 16,594 | 163,516 | 21.7% | — |
| 2007 | 16,600 | 164,074 | 21.8% | — |
| 2006 | 14,961 | 148,397 | 19.6% | — |
| 2005 | 14,714 | 147,125 | 19.3% | — |
| 2004 | 13,810 | 138,404 | 18.1% | — |
| 2003 | 15,260 | 156,278 | 20.0% | — |
| 2002 | 15,485 | 157,529 | 20.3% | — |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.
Sources
3 sourcesSources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal 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.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)