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62 Heavy electrical transmission lines astatine the almighty Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located successful California's Mojave Desert astatine the basal of Clark Mountain and conscionable southbound of this stateline assemblage connected Interstate 15, are viewed connected July 15, 2022 adjacent Primm, Nevada. The Ivanpah strategy consists of 3 star thermal powerfulness plants and 173,500 heliostats (mirrors) connected 3,500 acres and features a gross capableness of 392 megawatts (MW).
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The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management this week said it has precocious 2 transmission projects projected by nationalist inferior NV Energy that would facilitate much renewable vigor development and transportation successful Nevada.
The bureau volition commencement an environmental review for the Greenlink North project, which volition span implicit 450 miles to link Las Vegas to Reno, and merchandise a draught biology interaction connection for the Greenlink West transmission project, which volition screen 232 miles from Ely to Yerington.
Once completed, the projects volition link 8 gigawatts of cleanable vigor to the Western powerfulness grid. The plans would bolster the Biden administration's extremity to deploy 25 gigawatts of renewable vigor connected nationalist lands and waters by 2025 and execute a carbon-free powerfulness assemblage by 2035.
The announcement comes arsenic Congress debates national vigor permitting overhauls, with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introducing a measurement earlier this month to velocity permitting of some fossil substance and renewable vigor projects.
Transmission projects impact expanding high-voltage lines that transport renewable vigor to populated areas and volition play a captious relation successful accelerating the cleanable vigor modulation portion gathering increasing powerfulness demand.
The BLM aims to finalize projected documents and make a grounds of determination for the Greenlink West task by precocious 2024. It volition besides merchandise draught biology readying documents for the Greenlink North task for nationalist remark aboriginal this year.
"Our nationalist lands person a captious relation to play successful the cleanable vigor transition," BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said successful a statement.
The bureau said it has approved 35 cleanable vigor projects implicit the past mates of years, including solar, geothermal, and gen-tie installations, which are anticipated to make 8,160 megawatts of electricity, oregon capable to powerfulness much than 2.6 cardinal homes.
Some projects see the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project successful New Mexico and operation support for California's Sunlight Storage II Battery Storage System. The bureau is besides reviewing projects similar Utah's Star Range Solar Project and Nevada's Bonanza Solar Project.
