Desert Peak Energy Center Case No. 5.1543-CUP
Summary
SCH Number
2022050101
Lead Agency
City of Palm Springs
Document Title
Desert Peak Energy Center Case No. 5.1543-CUP
Document Type
MND - Mitigated Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
IND (Industrial) w/Wind Energy Overlay; Energy Industrial Zone (E-I)
Document Description
The Project includes a 700-MWe battery energy storage system (BESS) facility with associated on-site substation, inverters, fencing, roads, and supervisory control and data acquisition system (“SCDACA”). The Project will be built on 78± acres of a 357± acre planning area and will consist of approximately 728± battery containers, each with two (2) “silenced” Bard externally-mounted air-conditioning units. Phase 1 will have a storage capacity of 300 MWe and Phase 2 will have a capacity of 400 MWe. The Project also includes a 230-kilovolt overhead generation tie line (“gen-tie line”). The proposed gen-tie will be comprised of galvanized steel pole structures up to 160 feet tall and spaced approximately every 200 - 600 feet, and will carry load between the Project collector substation and the SCE Devers substation. The gen-tie line would extend approximately 0.5 miles to the west from the Phase 1 collector substation to its point of interconnection with the SCE Devers substation.
Contact Information
Name
Edward Robertson
Agency Name
City of Palm Springs
Job Title
Principal Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
John D. Criste
Agency Name
Terra Nova Planning & Research, Inc.
Job Title
Principal
Contact Types
Consulting Firm
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Palm Springs
Counties
Riverside
Regions
Southern California
Cross Streets
North and South of Dillon Road, north of 18th Ave and generally south of 16th Ave, east of Diabl
Zip
92262
Total Acres
357
Parcel #
668-130-017 through -021; 668-270-013 through -016 and 668-280-007 & 017
State Highways
US I-10
Railways
UPRR
Waterways
Whitewater River
Township
3
Range
4E
Section
4
Base
SBBM
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Colorado River Basin Region 7 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality
Development Types
Industrial (Sq. Ft. 3397680, Acres 357, Employees 1)
Local Actions
Site Plan, Use Permit
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Public Services, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian
Attachments
Draft Environmental Document [Draft IS, NOI_NOA_Public notices, OPR Summary Form, Appx,]
Notice of Completion [NOC] Transmittal form
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