Wind Resource Areas (2023)

<div style='text-align:Left;'><p style='margin:7 0 7 0;'><span style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'><font size='4'>The method to create the Wind Resource Area datasets is to:</font></span></p><p style='margin:7 0 7 0;'><span style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'><font size='4'>Query Power Plant point locations from the California Energy Commission, <a href='https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaenergy.maps.arcgis.com%2Fhome%2Fitem.html%3Fid%3D4a702cd67be24ae7ab8173423a768e1b&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7Caa3642d83c6249bdd4ab08db2f143937%7Cac3a124413f44ef68d1bbaa27148194e%7C0%7C0%7C638155536144205242%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=be9B3%2BXmAp670440N9shHj1t71ysxPrjlPAyZa3pkyc%3D&amp;reserved=0' style='text-decoration:underline;' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:16pttext-decoration:underline;'>California Power Plants</span></a> data set by operational status and capacity greater than or equal to 2 MW at each facility from the <a href='https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energy.ca.gov%2Fdata-reports%2Fenergy-almanac%2Fcalifornia-electricity-data%2Fquarterly-fuel-and-energy-report-qfer-data&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7Caa3642d83c6249bdd4ab08db2f143937%7Cac3a124413f44ef68d1bbaa27148194e%7C0%7C0%7C638155536144205242%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8aOrH0H7%2FT2u%2BA2%2FwiYc35mSHvNeDWPk08YpqCWfUjM%3D&amp;reserved=0' style='text-decoration:underline;' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:16pttext-decoration:underline;'>Quarterly Fuel and Energy Report, CEC-1304A</span></a>. Plants tracked include those of at least 1 MW, which are considered of commercial size.  A polygon was generated around the resulting operational, commercial wind facilities using the Aggregate Points geoprocessing tool with an aggregation distance of 15 survey miles. A 5 mile spatial buffer was added to the resulting polygons.  The buffer does not represent information regarding environmental analysis.  It is used only to depict plant concentration regions.   </font></span></p><p></p><div><div style='font-size:12pt;'><p><span></span></p></div></div></div>