California Wind Energy Association

In this blog post, the Union of Concerned Scientists documents that California is way behind in fostering the wind energy it will need to meet its clean energy and climate emissions targets.  It calls on the state to identify and reduce barriers to in-state wind development and initiate the process to build more transmission lines that enable both in-state and out-of-state wind projects. 

Great piece from Politico on the saga of Fountain Wind -- a terrific proposed project that California is poised to kill.  Were that to happen, it would stall out wind development in California.

If California kills the Fountain Wind Project, sited on private, active timberland next to a successful 15-year-old wind project, it will chill investment in the wind projects that California needs to meet the CPUC's 9-GW in-state wind target.  Worse, the Energy Commission staff's reasoning could kill any renewable energy project. 

Scout Clean Energy’s Gonzaga Ridge in Merced County will provide nearly 150 megawatts of clean wind energy to 385,000 CleanPowerSF customers

A FLIGHTY WIND: The developers of a new wind farm in the Santa Barbara County hills did something a lot of people thought was impossible, a local official said today: They finished an industrial-scale renewable project on California’s pristine and heavily regulated coast.

“Projects like this are really important as a counterfactual to change that narrative, to show that it’s possible to permit and operate in coastal counties,” county supervisor and former Assemblymember Das Williams said at a press conference today.