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Windstar 1: location and 10 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Windstar 1
Power plant · Wind
Key facts
Power plant · Windran 24% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 2012
- Net generation, 2025
- 255,028 MWh
- Grid
- 230 kV to Southern California Edison Co (CISO)
- Location
- Kern County, California
- Operated by
- Nextera Energy Resources
Output
Details
Who’s behind it
- Owner
- Windstar Energy LLC
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- Technology
- Wind source: “Onshore Wind Turbine”
- Age
- 14 years since 2012
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
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| Grid |
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| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 870,156 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.243 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 255,028 |
| Balancing authority code | CISO |
Wind turbines
Wind turbines
USGS maps these turbines around a center 3.3 km from the point this page maps the plant at; the nearest turbine is 0.3 km from that point.
- Turbines
- 60
- Turbine capacity (MW)
- 120
- Turbine models
- 37 Gamesa G80-2.0 and 23 Gamesa G87-2.0
- Hub height (m)
- 67
- Rotor diameter (m)
- 80–87
- Year online
- 2012
Source U.S. Wind Turbine Database
Source
- U.S. Wind Turbine DatabaseMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
Ownership
2 companies2| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nextera Energy Resources | Operator | EIA-860M | ||
| Windstar Energy LLC | Owner | 100.0% | 31 Dec 2025 | EIA-860 |
Timeline
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
6 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · U.S. Wind Turbine Database · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses)Global 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.
- U.S. Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) — USGS, American Clean Power Association and LBNL; one row per turbineMap services and data are available from U.S. Wind Turbine Database, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, American Clean Power Association, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb
- EIA Open Data bulk file — Electricity (ELEC.zip; monthly plant net generation and fuel consumption since 2001)Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tehachapi Wind Resource I Postponed | Wind | 3.3 km | 0.6 |
| 4001 and 2510 ClearVista Solar and Wind Withdrawn | Wind | 6.8 km | 24.5 |
| Windhub Solar B, LLC Under construction | Solar | 9.0 km | 26.4 |
| Syracuse and Tours Renewable Energy Permitted | Solar + storage | 12.2 km | 80 |
| Tehachapi Spindle Withdrawn | Storage | 14.6 km | 20 |
| Camino Solar Hybrid Postponed | Storage | 16.0 km | 11 |
| Sanborn Hybrid 3 Under construction | Solar + storage | 22.9 km | 1,400 |
| Rosamond South II Under construction | Storage | 23.5 km | 140 |
| Willow Rock Energy Storage Center Contracted | Storage | 23.9 km | 500 |
| Aratina Solar Center 2 Under construction | Solar + storage | 24.3 km | 200 |
Sources
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
- CAISO Public Queue ReportSource: California ISO