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Fast-Track Renewable Energy Projects

Solar

Ivanpah BrightSource Solar Project (CACA-48668)

  • The project, proposed by Brightsource Energy, is about 5 miles southwest of Primm, Nev. in San Bernardino, County, Calif.
  • The 400-megwatt project would incorporate seven 459-foot tall power towers and 214,000 heliostats (each holding two flat mirrors).
  • The three solar thermal power plants would interconnect to the Southern California Edison grid through upgrades to the transmission line passing through the site and a new substation.
  • The project’s power plants would share an administrative complex/construction logistics area on approximately 4,073 acres of public land.


Solar Millennium Blythe Solar Project (CACA-48811)

  • The proposed Blythe Solar Power Project is a thermal parabolic trough electrical generating facility capable of generating 986 megawatts of renewable power.
  • The proposed footprint is approximately 6,300 acres. 
  • The project site is in Riverside County, Calif., approximately eight miles west of Blythe.
  • The proposed site is adjacent to the I-10 transmission corridor, a major energy transmission corridor in Southern California.


Solar Millennium Palen Solar Project (CACA-48810)

  • The project site is in Riverside County, Calif., approximately 10 miles east of Desert Center and adjacent to the I-10 transmission corridor.
  • The proposed Palen Solar Power Project is a thermal parabolic trough electrical generating facility capable of generating 484 megawatts of renewable power.
  • The proposed facility footprint will be approximately 3,800 acres within a proposed 5,176-acre right-of-way. 


Solar Millennium Ridgecrest Solar Project (CACA-49016)

  • The proposed Ridgecrest Solar Power Plant Project is a dry-cooled parabolic trough solar thermal electric power generating facility and would generate 250 megawatts. 
  • The proposed facility footprint is approximately 1,760 acres (plant would occupy approx. 1,440 acres) within a 3,920-acre proposed right-of-way. 
  • The project is located 4.5 miles south of the southern boundary of China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station and 5 miles southwest of Ridgecrest, about one mile west of the intersection of Hwy 395 and China Lake Boulevard at Brown Road. 


NextEra Genesis Ford Dry Lake Solar Project (CACA-4880)

  • The proposed project is north of I-10, near Ford Dry Lake, about 20 miles west of Blythe in Riverside County, Calif.
  • The 250-megawatt project would cover 4,640 acres, of which about 1,800 acres would be directly impacted.
  • The two independent thermal-power generating facilities propose to use wet-cooled, parabolic solar troughs.
  • Ties into a 230-kilovolt (kV) on-site switchyard and Blythe Energy/FPL 500-kV line, with an interconnect to the Colorado River Substation.


Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two Project (CACA-47740)

  • The Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two project is a 750 megawatt solar generation power plant proposal to be located in the Imperial Valley, Calif. near El Centro.
  • The project is proposed on 6,140 acres of BLM-administered public lands, along with 360 acres of private lands. 
  • Technology utilized will be the Stirling Energy Systems Suncatcher solar dish.


Stirling Energy Solar One Project (CACA 049537/CACA-049539)

  • Solar One is an 850-megawatt solar generation power plant proposal located in San Bernardino County, Calif., 37 miles east of Barstow on 8,230 acres of public land.  


FirstSolar Desert Sunlight  (CACA-48649)

  • The proposed project for a thin film technology, photo voltaic array, electrical generating facility capable of generating 550 megawatts of renewable power.
  • The proposed project site is located on approximately 4,410 acres of public land. 
  • The project site is in Riverside County, Calif., approximately 6 miles north of the community of Desert Center, about 60 miles east of Palm Springs, and 7 miles north of the I-10 transmission corridor.

Chevron Energy Systems Lucerne Valley Solar Project (CACA 49561)

  • The proposed CES Lucerne Valley Solar Plant is a photovoltaic solar electrical generating facility capable of generating 60 megawatts of renewable power. 
  • The proposed CES solar project site is located on approximately 516 acres of BLM managed land, about eight miles east of Lucerne Valley.
  • The project would be constructed in three phases: phase I would consist of up to 180,000 photovoltaic panels with a generating capacity of 20 megwatts; phases II and III would consist of the same configuration for a total generating capacity of 60 megawatts.


Wind

AES Daggett Ridge Wind Energy Project (CACA-49575)

  • About 6 miles southeast of Barstow and 5 miles southwest of Daggett in San Bernardino County, Calif.
  • Wind energy generating facility capable of generating 82.5 megawatt on approximately 1,577 acres of BLM managed land and 380 acres of private land.
  • Substation, storage yard, offices, and maintenance shops would be on private land.
  • AES Wind Generation is a subsidiary of AES, a global power company founded in 1981 with generation and distribution businesses across five continents.

Granite Mountain Wind Energy Project  (CACA 48254)

  • RES North America, LLC has proposed to develop the Granite Wind Project, a wind powered facility capable of generating 73 megawatts of renewable power.  The project will be comprised of up to 28 Siemens or similar, 2.3-megawatt wind turbine generators.
  • The project site is located on approximately 1,968 acres of public land managed by the BLM and 670-acres of private land in San Bernardino County, Calif. approximately 6 miles east of Apple Valley in the Granite Mountains. 


Tule Wind Energy Project (CACA-49698)

  • Pacific Wind Development, LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, has proposed to develop the Tule Wind Farm, a wind energy generating facility capable of generating 200 megawatts of renewable power. 
  • The proposed project site is located on approximately 15,493 acres of multiple jurisdiction land.
  • The project includes turbines, access roads, electrical collector and transmission lines, a substation, meteorological towers, storage yards, and operations/maintenance facilities, all to be constructed in one phase. 
  • The proposed project is in McCain Valley in eastern San Diego County, approximately 60 miles east of San Diego, near Boulevard, California, approximately two miles south of the main project.


Transmission

Barren Ridge Transmission Project (CACA-48871)

  • The project, proposed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), has several components, including a new 60-mile long, 230-kilovolt line to bring renewable energy to its customers.
     
  • The proposed new transmission line would stretch from Haskell Canyon to the Castaic Power Plant, involving 13 miles of National Forest land and four miles of BLM public land.
     
  • The line would bring in power from LADWP's Pine Tree Wind Development Project and two wind projects being developed by LADWP in the mountains northwest of Tehachapi.


Devers-Palo Verde No. 2 Transmission Project (CACA-48771)

  • The proposed new 500 kilovolt line would stretch 230 miles from Palm Springs, CA, to the Harquahala Generating Station switchyard, near the Arizona state line.
     
  • The proponent, Southern California Edison, is also proposing to upgrade 48.2 miles of existing transmission line between the Devers substation west to the San Bernardino and Vista substations near San Bernardino, Calif.

Eldorado - Ivanpah Transmission Project (CACA 49834)

  • Southern California Edison's proposed project involves upgrading and replacing approximately 36 miles of an existing 115 kV transmission line with a new double circuit 220-kV line within an existing utility corridor.
  • The proposed line would handle electricity produced from renewable energy project proposals in and around the Ivanpah Valley.

   
Last updated: 03-10-2010