Lockhart Solar (PROJ-2022-00066)

Lockhart Solar (PROJ-2022-00066)

Juniper Energy LLC (the Applicant) is requesting approval of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to construct and operate two 4-Megawat solar photovoltaic (PV) power generating facilities with long-duration battery storage capabilities for a combined 8-Megawats in total on approximately 75 acres located northwest of the unincorporated community of Hinkley (the Project). The Project would generate electricity using solar PV modules mounted on single-axis trackers and arranged in north-south arrays across the Project Site. The system would store electrical production in long-duration batteries, which require no cooling system and have no risk of fires. Switchgear, a weather station, inverters, and transformers would manage the system and convert power for distribution to the nearby transmission grid. Electrical conduit, transmission and collection lines would be installed both overhead and underground. The solar PV facilities would interconnect to the 33kV distribution line owned and operated by Southern California Edison (SCE). One system would interconnect at a point near the southwestern border of the Project Site. The second system would interconnect along the northern boundary through a new electric line installed along the access easement at a point located at the corner of Roy Road and Harper Lake Road.

Hinkley

San Bernardino

Countywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), 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, Lahontan Victorville Region 6 (RWQCB), Colorado River Board, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance

Power:Solar (Megawatts 8)

Use Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire