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Tehachapi Pass (Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California. Traditionally, the pass marks the northeast end of the Tehachapis and the south end of the Sierra Nevada range. The route is a principal connector between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
- Tehachapi Pass wind farm
The Tehachapi Pass wind farm is one of the first large-scale...
- Tehachapi Loop
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km)...
- Tehachapi Pass wind farm
The Tehachapis are delineated from the Sierra Nevada by Tehachapi Pass and State Route 58 at the range's northeastern end, connecting the San Joaquin Valley and Mojave Desert. The Union Pacific north/south railroad line, with the famous Tehachapi Loop, crosses here also. The Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm is on its eastern side.
- 7,981 ft (2,433 m)
- Transverse Ranges
- 40 mi (64 km)
- Double Mountain
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The Tehachapi Community Orchestra, now called the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, was founded in 1997 by Joan Samara and Deborah Hand as an outgrowth of the Da Camera Players String Ensemble, and incorporated in 1998 by Gayel Pitchford. It performs 5 free-to-the public concerts each year, with familiar selections from the classical canon.
- 3,970 ft (1,210 m)
- Kern
Mar 25, 2024 · Tehachapi Pass (Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [2] [3] is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California. Traditionally, the pass marks the northeast end of the Tehachapis and the south end of the Sierra Nevada range.
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert .
The Tehachapi Pass wind farm is one of the first large-scale wind farms installed in the U.S., with around 710 megawatts (950,000 hp) produced by about 3400 wind turbines. [1] [2] Overview. The mountain pass acts as a venturi effect to air moving between ocean and desert, increasing wind speed. [3]
- 1980s
- Operational
- United States
May 17, 2019 · A landscape for wind. In California, summertime heating of the ground inland causes the air to rise, creating a thermal low — a low-pressure region. Cooler, higher-pressure air masses over the ocean move inland to fill the thermal low, flowing through mountain passes like Tehachapi Pass. The venturi effect of the mountain pass accelerates the ...
