Oct 26 2009
Western Wind Energy Corp ("Western Wind") is pleased to announce that it has secured approximately 575 contiguous acres near Tehachapi, California through land purchases and ground leases and plans to pursue the development of an additional wind energy project of at least 30 MW. The new project will be named Windswept. Western Wind is working on acquiring or leasing additional contiguous land parcels that could see Windswept increase to over 1,500 acres and up to 80 MWs.
Windswept is just west of Western Wind's current late development stage Windstar project and shares similar wind speeds to Windstar's lower resource area. Windswept completion is still several years away and is subject to obtaining wind energy zoning from Kern County, a power purchase agreement, interconnection to Southern California Edison's new transmission line, financing and other development milestones.
Source: Western Wind Energy Corp