The project is designed to generate up to 200 megawatts (MW) of electricity and provide up to 600 MW of battery energy storage reliability for the Nevada grid through the Harry Allen Substation.
A summary of the 24 comments received during the public review period is included in the environmental assessment, which is available on the BLM National NEPA Register along with other associated documents.
Recently, the Department of the Interior announced that BLM had achieved the major milestone of permitting 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects, including solar, wind, geothermal, and gen-ties (transmission lines that cross public lands to connect renewable energy projects on private lands to the grid).
The BLM is currently processing 66 utility-scale onshore clean energy projects proposed on public lands in the western United States, which have the combined potential to add more than 32,000 megawatts of renewable energy to the western electric grid. BLM is also undertaking the preliminary review of nearly 200 applications for solar and wind development, as well as 100 applications for wind and solar energy testing.