Shell Energy North America (Shell Energy) and Coachella Hills Wind have signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement to procure up to 100MW of wind energy from the Coachella Hills Wind project being developed by Terra-Gen.
The Coachella Hills Wind project, in Palm Springs, CA, represents a repowering of the existing Coachella Flats and Painted Hills wind projects with an anticipated online date of December 1st, 2020. Coachella is the second California wind project where Terra-Gen and Shell Energy have executed a power purchase agreement. The first project, signed in 2017, was a 130MW Greenfield wind project known as Voyager II located in Tehachapi, California.