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Mojave 3/4/5

Wind power plant · Kern County, California

Nameplate capacity
75 MW
Rank in California
#341
of 1,897 plants
In service since
1990
December 1990

Details

Primary fuel
Wind
Technology
Onshore Wind Turbine
Operator
Terra-Gen Operating Co-Wind
County
Kern County
Generating units
1
Share of state capacity
0.07%
Rank among wind plants in California
#36 of 111
EIA plant code
52142

Generating units

Individual generating units at Mojave 3/4/5
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
GEN1Onshore Wind Turbine75 MW67 MW1990Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 75 MW solar plant and a 75 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All California power plants · What California actually generates