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(PROFILE) Oak Creek Energy Leading the Way Oak Creek Energy’s commitment to a California wind farm helped build the American wind energy industry. by Chris Petersen Oak Creek Energy www.oces.com 2010 sales: $62 million Headquarters: Escondido, Calif. Employees: 125 Specialty: Wind energy Hal Romanowitz, president/CTO: “It’s a phenomenal wind resource.” Oak Creek Energy continued to support wind energy even after government investment in it dried up in the 1980s. W ith hundreds of turbines sprouting up across the country, it’s becoming increasingly clear that proponents of wind energy haven’t been full of hot air. As technology improves and increases the potential for wind energy to supplement or even replace traditional fossil fuel-based power, the sight of a towering wind turbine has become more common. One place where that’s especially true is in Kern County, Calif., home to the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm. Tehachapi Pass has been providing wind-based energy to Southern California Edison (SCE) since the 1980s, and continues to grow to this day. Currently, the farm is in the middle of the $1.8 billion first phase of the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, which eventually will increase the farm’s capacity to more than 4,500 megawatts (MW). Leading the way on this project just as it did in the early days of the farm’s development is Oak Creek Energy, one of the pioneers in developing wind farms in the state. Oak Creek Energy’s work on the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project is significant in a number of 54 (energy + infrastructure) winter/spring 2011 

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Energy & Infrastructure - Winter/Spring 2011
Editor’s Page
Contents
Infrastructure Needs
Financing HSR
Nationwide Green
Unstable Scenario
News
Natural Solution
CARIBBEAN/PACIFIC ISLAND REGIONAL FOCUS
The National Gas Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd.
Guam Power Authority
Jamaica Public Service
Belize Electricity Ltd.
Wärtsilä in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico
Port of Houston Authority
Oklahoma City Public Works – Project 180
Oak Creek Energy
Tres Amigas LLC
Northwest Territories Power Corp.
American Bituminous Power Partners
Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department
Environmental Dynamics
Paducah Power System
Last Look

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