North Sky River & Jawbone Wind Energy Project

Project Specifications

Client: Kern County Planning Department

Location: Kern County

Services: Environmental Review & Permitting, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Air Quality & Climate Services

Aspen prepared EIR for the North Sky River Wind Energy Project and Jawbone Wind Energy Project. The project, as proposed is a wind energy generation facility that would generate up to 339 MW of electricity from WTGs on an approximately 13,535-acre site in unincorporated Kern County, California. The EIR evaluated potential impacts of implementing a change in zone classification to incorporate the Wind Energy (WE) Combining District to the base district for approximately 1,292 acres of the approximately 13,535-acre project site. Rezoning would allow for construction of the WTGs, ancillary facilities, and supporting infrastructure, including up to two substations, on-site overhead transmission line, underground distribution cables, and internal access roads. Aspen prepared a full issue area EIR that identified significant unavoidable impacts with respect to the following resources: aesthetics (operational impacts), air quality (construction impacts), biological resources (construction and operational impacts), cultural resources (construction impacts), and recreation (construction and operational impacts).