NEPA Number: DOI-BLM-CA-D060-2010-0002-EIS
Project Name: Desert Sunlight Solar Farm

Project Information 

  • NEPA Number
    DOI-BLM-CA-D060-2010-0002-EIS
  • Project Name
    Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
  • Project Type
    EIS
  • NEPA Status
    Completed - Completed
  • Lead Office
    Palm Springs and S Coast Field Office
  • Last Updated


What's New

Project Vitals
                                                                                                                                                                                  

First Solar Development, Inc. (First Solar) has constructed a 550-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant project known as the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm (DSSF or Project). The DSSF includes three main components 1) the Solar Farm site, 2) a transmission line, and 3) a Southern California Edison (SCE) owned and operated substation, Red Bluff Substation.

The Solar Farm site is on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) six miles north of the rural community of Desert Center, which is adjacent to the I-10 freeway in eastern Riverside County, California.

The Project includes a 230-kV transmission line that would extend south from the Solar Farm site and interconnect to the planned Red Bluff substation near I-10. The Red Bluff Substation interconnects with the existing SCE Devers-Palo Verde 1 transmission line. The three main project components will require a total of about 4,410 acres – 4,090 acres for the Solar Farm, 230 acres for the transmission corridor, and 90 acres for the substation.
For more information please contact the Bureau of Land Management Project Manager Frank McMenimen at (760) 833-7150 ([email protected]).

Bureau of Land Management
Palm Springs - South Coast Field Office
1201 Bird Center Drive
Palm Springs, California 92262
Phone: (760) 833-7100
Fax: (760) 833-7199
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., M-F

Draft EIS Publication

  • Actual Date
    8/31/2010


Final EIS Publication

  • Actual Date
    4/30/2011


Project Location

City State/Territory Zip Code County(ies)
Desert Center California 92239

Application Information

  • Case File Number
    CACA 48649
  • Program
    Renewable Energy
  • Sub-Program
    Solar Energy


Project Dates

  • Start Date
    1/30/2010
  • End Date
    8/7/2011


Notice of Intent Publication

  • NOI Publication Date
    1/13/2010


Record of Decision Publication

  • Actual Date
    8/7/2011


Project Office Information

  • Lead Office
    Palm Springs and S Coast Field Office
  • Offices
    Palm Springs and S Coast FO


Contacts

  • Contact 1 Name
    Elizabeth A Meyer-Shields
  • Contact 1 Email
    [email protected]
  • Contact 1 Phone
    (916) 978-4672