Onshore wind · United States
Sand Hill C
Planned80 MWChecked 6 October 2026
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 80 MW
- Status
- Planned
- Operator
- Viracocha Wind LLC
- Location
- Alameda County, California, United States
- Expected
- 2027
- Balancing authority
- CISO
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Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United States
The register holds 95 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United States, 32 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Wind turbine blade falls onto farmland at Biglow Canyon
- Engie wind farm damaged by high winds in South Dakota
- Planned detonation removes damaged blade at Cross Winds wind farm
- Lightning strike suspected in wind turbine fire at La Casa Wind Farm, Texas
- Nacelle fire damages turbine at Waymart Wind Farm near Browndale, Pennsylvania
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M (Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.