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BLM points last environmental evaluation for Greenlink West transmission line
LAS VEGAS — Appearing Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis visited Las Vegas at this time to focus on the Biden-Harris administration’s important progress in assembly President Biden’s formidable clear vitality targets. She joined Bureau of Land Administration (BLM) Nevada State Director Jon Raby to announce the completion of the ultimate environmental evaluation of the proposed Greenlink West Transmission Mission, a sequence of transmission strains that might join Reno and Las Vegas, serving to ship clear vitality from the Nevada desert to the Western electrical grid. If accomplished, the undertaking, which crosses roughly 470 miles of BLM-managed public land, may transmit as much as 4 gigawatts of unpolluted vitality, sufficient to energy at the very least 1.2 million houses.
The Division just lately introduced that the BLM has now permitted greater than 25 gigawatts of unpolluted vitality tasks – surpassing a serious milestone forward of 2025 – sufficient clear vitality to energy greater than 12 million houses throughout the nation. This consists of photo voltaic, wind and geothermal tasks, in addition to gen-tie strains on public lands which might be important for connecting clear electrical energy tasks on each federal and non-federal land to the grid.
“Large-scale transmission projects are key to the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of moving our nation towards a clean energy future with good-paying jobs and healthy local economies while tackling the climate crisis,” mentioned Appearing Deputy Secretary Daniel-Davis. “Working with states, Tribes and partners across the American West, we are taking bold steps to build the infrastructure that will get us to a 100% clean electric grid by 2035.”
“Our public lands play a key role in addressing the climate crisis,” mentioned BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. “The BLM will continue to deliver on that promise, protecting healthy landscapes and restoring lands to health while permitting the infrastructure we need for the clean energy economy of the future.”
President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is rising the American financial system from the center out and backside up – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to driving over $860 billion in non-public sector manufacturing and clear vitality investments in the USA, to creating good paying jobs and constructing a clear vitality financial system that can fight the local weather disaster and make our communities extra resilient.
The Greenlink West Transmission Mission, proposed by NV Vitality, consists of the development, operation and upkeep of a system of latest electrical transmission services crossing Clark, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey and Washoe counties. The undertaking would additionally embrace expansions of 4 substations and building of two new substations to assist carry clear vitality to the Western grid. Underneath the BLM’s proposed various, the road would run by means of areas of the state with potential for clear vitality improvement and would join Nevada clear vitality to the California electrical grid.
As of Could 30, 2024, the BLM is at the moment processing 67 utility-scale onshore clear vitality tasks proposed on public lands within the western United States. This consists of photo voltaic, wind, and geothermal tasks, in addition to interconnected gen-tie strains which might be very important to wash vitality tasks proposed on non-federal land. These tasks have the mixed potential so as to add 30,926 megawatts of renewable vitality to the western electrical grid. The BLM can be endeavor the preliminary evaluation of roughly 190 functions for photo voltaic and wind improvement, in addition to 88 functions for wind and photo voltaic vitality testing.
A Discover of Availability will publish in Friday’s Federal Register for the related last environmental impression assertion and useful resource administration plan amendments, starting a 30-day protest interval that ends July 15 and a 60-day Governor’s consistency evaluation that ends August 13. Enter obtained throughout this time will inform a Document of Resolution anticipated later this yr.
Courtesy of U.S. Division of Inside.
