IP Athos Renewable Energy Project

IP Athos Renewable Energy Project

The applicant is proposing to construct, operate and decommission a 500 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) electrical generation and storage facility, and associated infrastructure to generate and deliver renewable electricity to the statewide electricity transmission grid at Southern California Edison's Red Bluff Substation. The proposed project is located on approx. 3,440 acres across 7 groups of non-contiguous parcels in the Desert Center area of Riverside County. Approx. 7 miles of the project's 11-mile gen-tie transmission line leading to Red Bluff Substation would traverse federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and require a Right-of-Way Grant. The BLM will prepare and rely on its own environmental review document in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act.

Desert Center

Riverside

Air Resources Board, Major Industrial Projects, Cal Fire, California Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Colorado River Basin Region 7 (RWQCB), Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 6, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Emergency Services, California, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency

Power:Solar (Megawatts 500)

Use Permit, Land Division (Subdivision, etc.), Variance

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire