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Oak Creek Energy |
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Oak Creek Energy is a wind energy pioneer, beginning with one of the first wind farms built in California in early 1982. The company has long played an active role in the wind energy industry and was instrumental in advancing major transmission improvements to the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area of Kern, County California, which will also provide major benefits to the California power grid and will allow the interconnection of planned new wind farms in the area. |
People |
Oak Creek has a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work at its California offices located in Mojave and Escondido. This team covers all the disciplines required for the successful development, construction, operation and management of wind energy facilities.
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Operations |
| Oak Creek currently operates approximately 180 wind turbines in Kern County between Tehachapi and Mojave in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area and will soon add the 24MW Alite project, also located near Mojave, which is scheduled to achieve commercial operations in January, 2007 |
Development
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Oak Creek is currently working on green field development and re-power projects in the southwestern United States. Oak Creek develops projects in the California market through its development subsidiary, Alta Innovative Power Company, LLC, which is a joint venture company with California Highwind Power, LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC and Terra-Gen Power, LLC. In December, 2006 Alta Windpower Development, LLC signed a power purchase agreement with Southern California Edison to deliver 1,550 MW of wind energy from new projects under long-term development in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area to be installed between 2009 and 2015. SCE has stated that this is the largest wind energy contract ever signed by a U.S. utility.
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