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BLM points last environmental evaluation for Greenlink West transmission line
LAS VEGAS — Performing Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis visited Las Vegas at the moment to spotlight the Biden-Harris administration’s vital progress in assembly President Biden’s bold 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 Venture, a collection of transmission strains that may 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, might transmit as much as 4 gigawatts of unpolluted vitality, sufficient to energy a minimum of 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 are 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,” stated Performing 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,” stated 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 economic 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 america, to creating good paying jobs and constructing a clear vitality economic system that can fight the local weather disaster and make our communities extra resilient.
The Greenlink West Transmission Venture, 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 embody expansions of 4 substations and development of two new substations to assist deliver clear vitality to the Western grid. Below the BLM’s proposed various, the road would run by areas of the state with potential for clear vitality growth and would join Nevada clear vitality to the California electrical grid.
As of Might 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 are important to scrub 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 overview of roughly 190 purposes for photo voltaic and wind growth, in addition to 88 purposes for wind and photo voltaic vitality testing.
A Discover of Availability will publish in Friday’s Federal Register for the related last environmental influence assertion and useful resource administration plan amendments, starting a 30-day protest interval that ends July 15 and a 60-day Governor’s consistency overview that ends August 13. Enter obtained throughout this time will inform a Document of Choice anticipated later this 12 months.
Courtesy of U.S. Division of Inside.
