The Linden Wind Energy Project is a wind generation facility with a nameplate capacity of 50 MW, located in Klickitat County in south central Washington near the city of Goldendale. The project sits on a ridge at an elevation of approximately 2,700 feet, overlooking the Columbia River.
This project site consists of 25 REpower MM92 2.0 MW wind turbines on 1,900 acres. Each turbine has a rotor diameter of 92.5 meters. The tower height is 80 meters, and the maximum height of the turbines is approximately 127 meters when a rotor blade is at the top of its rotation.
The project site includes an operating and maintenance building, ten miles of roads, a collector system, a 230 KV transmission line, meteorological tower, and switchyard (which is owned and operated by the Klickitat Public Utility District). Delivery is through Bonneville Power Administration’s system, and SCPPA will move the energy via the existing pacific HVDC transmission line that feeds directly into LADWP's Sylmar Converter Station.
The two SCPPA participants in the project are the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Glendale Water & Power, with LADWP receiving 90% (45 MW) and Glendale receiving 10% (5 MW).*
Linden has the capacity to generate enough electricity to power more than 23,700 homes, and offset over 94,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted from a coal-powered plant.
* For the first three years, LADWP will receive 100% (50 MW), unless Glendale exercises its option to take 10%.
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