SunZia Goes Online, Delivering the West’s Largest Wind Project to California
TL;DR
SunZia’s 916 turbines and a 550‑mile HVDC transmission line from New Mexico are now online, delivering up to 3.65 GW of wind power to Arizona and California and helping CAISO set wind-generation records, a milestone for cross‑state transmission of clean energy amid a federal tilt toward fossil fuels. The project, completed after nearly two decades and an $11 billion investment, faced environmental, cultural, and permitting challenges and is the subject of ongoing litigation.
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