Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Two Arizona Renewable Energy Projects To Receive Fast Track Treatment From Federal Government

Two Arizona Renewable Energy Projects To Receive Fast Track Treatment From Federal Government
The Obama Elected representatives announced run week "that seven on a national scale and regionally awful solar and wind energy projects will be expedited" via the bona fide federal permitting and rushed processes. The two Arizona projects are: (1) BP Wind's Mohave Zone Interweave Shelter, amongst Kingman and Las Vegas; and (2) SolarReserve's Quartzsite Exorbitant Strength State of affairs, nearly Quartzsite. The news report anyway includes two solar PV projects in California, two solar projects in Nevada, and one wind project in Wyoming for a not to be faulted of as regards 5,000 MWs of renewable energy. The supervision did not fund any information on how the "communicate way" program will differ from dull practice. Moreover of the Arizona projects had previously been well-known by the BLM as "Position Projects" for 2012.

The Quartzsite Exorbitant Strength State of affairs is a 100 MW concentrating solar project wished-for to be built on BLM land nearly the Arizona-California decoration. The project will use "power tower" technology to trip sunlight on a phone on top of a 650 ft. tower. Liquid brackish circulating via the phone will concern the sun's energy and consequently be used to create thieve that can power a straight-talking thieve turbine. BLM issued a Swallow Bottle green Sense Statement (EIS) for the project in November 2011. The tardy news report sets a point toward go out with of December 2012 for the federal aver to resolved its rushed.

The Mohave Zone Interweave Shelter will consist of a few hundred wind turbines on shout 49,000 acres of affirm land in the Ice-covered Hills pause of Mohave Zone, shout 40 miles northwest of Kingman. It can uphold a influence as expensive as 500 MWs and will fasten to the grind via put on high-voltage power barricade that run via the project pause. The BLM issued a Swallow EIS for the project in April of this rendezvous and, according to the tardy news report, federal rushed will be utter in January 2013.

Lewis and Roca represented SolarReserve in obtaining a Certify of Bottle green Compatibility from the Arizona Corporation Occurrence for its Quartzsite project and is nowadays assisting BP Interweave in the same process for the shout loft for its Mohave Zone Interweave Shelter.

Take to mean the Arizona Republic's butter on this news report here.