Blowin' south of the border: Sempra subsidiary will build a new wind farm in Mexico. The project is part of the Energía Sierra Juarez wind complex in Tecate.
Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy giant Sempra, announced Thursday it is moving forward on the third phase of a large wind energy complex in Baja California. Some 64 turbines will be erected at the Cimarron wind project, with capacity to generate about 320 megawatts of power under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Silicon Valley Power to supply renewable energy to the Northern California city of Santa Clara.
The energy produced by the wind farm is expected to match the annual consumption of more than 84,000 homes and reduce about 210,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Cimarron is the third phase of a large wind project in Tecate called Energía Sierra Juarez, or ESJ. The first two phases of ESJ consist of 73 turbines with generation capacity of 263 megawatts.