Granite Mountain Wind, LLC, (GW) a wholly owned subsidiary of Renewable Energy Systems,  North America (RES), is proposing to develop a 58.8 – 84 megawatt wind energy project on a footprint of just under 100 acres on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and on private land under the jurisdiction of the County of San Bernardino (County). The site of the Granite Mountain Wind project is unincorporated land in the Mojave Desert, 6 miles east of the Town of Apple Valley and a similar distance northwest of the community of Lucerne Valley. 

First, the Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report will be used to consider whether the California Desert Conservation Area Plan should be amended to designate lands in the Granite Mountains project area as suitable or unsuitable for wind energy development. Second, GW has proposed to interconnect their project to the existing electrical transmission grid via a new 230 kV power line, approximately 1.5 miles of which would be outside the designated utility corridor.