- Wind

Utah's Wind Areas (blue) with Transmission (purple)

Beaver County is home to some of the most catalogued wind resources in the state. The county's wind potential, while well known to residents since its settlement in the mid 19th century, has only been carefully studied since 2001 when Milford Vocational Technology teacher Andy Swapp began measuring the wind with his students. The early data was collected using a 10 meter tower borrowed from the Utah Department of Natural Resources anemometer loan program. Soon after the first loan anemometer was placed, private developers began measuring wind with towers up to 50 meters in height. While the wind efficiency factor may be slightly lower than elsewhere in the country, it is well balanced with the load as the wind blows here during peak demand periods.

In November of 2009, First Wind a Boston company cut the ribbon on a 203.5 megawatt turbine farm as Phase I in their Milford Wind Corridor project. As part of the project, First wind constructed an 88 mile 345kV power transmission line to the Intermountain Power Project in Delta so power could be easily wheeled to members of the Southern California Public Power Authority in the Los Angeles Basin.