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Wind Energy Data

Below is a list of BLM authorizations relating to wind energy development.  Some of the projects listed are “connected action” projects that provide transmission to a wind energy facility.


Programs: Energy and Minerals: Renewable Energy: Data Table Wind Block

Wind Energy Projects Approved Since 2009

Project Name
Location

Developer

Potential Output
(MW)

BLM
Acreage

Peak
Jobs

Approval Date

Status

Anticipate
Operational
Date

Mohave County Wind Farm Project
Mohave County, AZ

BP Wind Energy

500

 

 

35,329
(+2,781 acres of Bureau of Reclamation Land)

725

6/24/13

Approved

2017

Alta East Wind Project
Kern County, CA

AltaWind Power

126
(+27 MW on private land)

1,999
(+593 acres of private land)

262

5/23/13

In operation

Online January
2014

Searchlight Wind Project
Clark County, NV

Duke Energy

200

9,300

275

3/13/13

Approved

2015

Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
Carbon County, WY

Power Company of Wyoming, LLC

3,000

102,207

350

10/9/12

Approved

2015

Ocotillo Express Wind and Energy Facility
Imperial County, CA

Ocotillo Express LLC (Patttern Energy LP)

315

10,151

350

5/11/12

In operation

 Operations began in December 2012
Echanis Wind/ North Steens Transmission
Harney County, OR

Echanis, LLC / Harney Electric Cooperative
 

104

0
(connected action)

415

12/28/11

Approved

2015
Tule Wind (BIA)
San Diego County, CA

Iberdrola-Pacific Wind Development
 

51

0
(connected action)

 

12/16/13

Approved

2015

Tule Wind
San Diego County, CA

Iberdrola-Pacific Wind Development

186

12,133

337

12/20/11

Approved

2015

West Butte Wind
Crook County, Deschutes County, OR

West Butte Wind Power

104

0
(connected action)

415

7/14/11

Approved

2015

Spring Valley Wind
White Pine County, NV

Spring Valley Wind, LLC

150

7,673

237

10/15/2010

In operation

Operations began in June 2012

Lime Wind Energy Project
Baker County, OR

Joseph Millworks, Inc.

4

3

10

12/17/2009

In operation

Operations began in November 2011