For decades, wind turbines straddling the Altamont Pass have generated clean electricity ... They just threw up hundreds of turbines at a time." But no location is risk free.

LIVERMORE — If you’ve driven through the Altamont Pass lately ... machines that reach up to almost 500 feet at the tips of their massive rotor blades. “These wind turbines are going to ...

But there’s a dark side to wind turbines ... and bats on the Altamont Pass east of Livermore each year. While the hazards there aren’t unique, recent studies suggest up to twice as many ...

A wind farm company with out-of-date turbines that wildlife biologists blame for the deaths of scores of raptors on the Altamont Pass has agreed ... and the new ones are up, she said, bird ...

LIVERMORE — In what Alameda County officials are calling a historic milestone, the framework for the next 30 years of wind energy on the Altamont ... Pass Wind Project, will generate close ...

The high number of bird deaths prompted county officials to place a moratorium in 1998 on expanding electrical capacity at the Altamont Pass Wind ... or turbines, you put them up much higher.

The Altamont ... wind farm, it would raise the specter of the Altamont Pass. We wanted to move towards getting the old turbines out of the Altamont Pass because, in a process called repowering, up ...

High Country News’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from across the region. Golden eagles fly near wind turbines at Altamont Pass, where a ...

After undergoing sleek upgrades over the past two decades, the iconic wind turbines at Altamont Pass are killing a lot ... North America could lose up to 90% of hoary bats to wind turbines over ...

on a stretch of land called the Altamont Pass. Within two decades, companies had installed thousands of wind turbines there. But there was a downside: Although the sea breeze made Altamont ideal ...