page_title: Tehachapi, California
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Tehachapi, California / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Snapshot of the wind turbines nestled in the mountains of Tehachapi, I took this shot while stopped on the side of the road
context_page_description: Tehachapi is a city in Kern County, California, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
  Tehachapi is 35 miles east-southeast of Bakersfield, and 20 miles west of Mojave. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles and a population of 14,414.
  The Tehachapi area is known for the nearby Tehachapi Loop, Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, Main Street Tehachapi, the Tehachapi Depot Museum, the Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park and Tomi-Kahni Resource Center, and excellent air conditions for gliding. Ten miles to the west at Keene, is the National Chavez Center, established to share the legacy of Cesar Chavez.
context_section_description: Tehachapi has historically been agrarian, with apples, peaches, grain, vegetables and hay grown year-round.
  Wine grapes were grown in the area from the 19th century up until prohibition. A 2007 application to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) for the "Tehachapi/Cummings Valley AVA" was declined due to insufficient planted acreage.
  Roughly half of Tehachapi's water supply originates as groundwater that is replenished by local precipitation; the other half comes from the California Aqueduct.
  The California Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison also known as Tehachapi State Prison, is in the area. Edwards Air Force Base lies 40 miles (64 km) to the east.
  The Tehachapi area has been a center for renewable wind energy, containing 4,531 turbines that produce 3,200 megawatts of electricity as of 2019. In the same year, Amazon announced it would begin sourcing wind energy from Tehachapi as part of its goal to become carbon-neutral by 2040.  The Tehachapi Energy Storage Project, commissioned in 2014, is located at Monolith Substation.
  In 2019, a Walmart store opened in Tehachapi, which would provide up to 200 full and part-time jobs.
caption: Wind Turbines in the mountains
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