McEvoy Ranch Wind Turbine Project Sage was responsible for the energy evaluation and design feasibility, site data acquisition, resource modeling, financial and performance modelling, permitting, vendor and equipment selection, biological, acoustic and avian studies, commissioning oversight and post installation performance monitoring of the 225 kW Norwin wind turbine installed at McEvoy Ranch, a commercial olive farm and processing facility outside of Petaluma, in Marin County, CA. Sage also provided overall project management services working closely with construction manager Morita Construction. The windmill was erected in May 2009 and began generating power in June 2009. The McEvoy wind turbine is the first wind project completed with PG&E SGIP incentives and is the largest privately owned agricultural windmill in California. The project received CA Assemblyman Jarred Huffman's "Sustainable North Bay" award. |
