"Report from Tehachapi: Why Wind Power Means Jobs, Security" on the Truman National Security Project

Last week I accompanied a group of veterans who are part of Operation Free on a trip to Tehachapi, CA, located just on the edge of the Mohave Desert in southern California, to learn about wind. There’s a lot of it in Tehachapi —a name that many believe comes from the Kawaiisu word tihachipia, which means “hard climb” — a rugged and mountainous country that was the site of some of the first large scale commercial wind production development nearly 30 years ago, and is the site of continued innovation in developing America’s clean and secure energy future. A future that is threatened unless Congress moves to allow industry to continue to develop and grow this proven, dependable, and clean energy technology by renewing the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC)

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