Ocotillo Express LLC submitted a plan of development to the BLM El Centro Field Office for the construction of a wind energy facility on a 15,000-acre site near Ocotillo and Coyote Wells.

Aspen’s Catherine Elder was identified as an author of the Gas Decarbonization Chapter of the Energy Commission’s 2021 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR). The IEPR is produced every two years as a policy report to the California legislature.

Aspen provided environmental support for various projects under Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)’s Environmental Regulatory Support Services on-call contract.

The existing Mesa Wind Project is located entirely on approximately 450 acres of lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Riverside County. The project is located about 11 miles northwest of the City of Palm Springs, north of Interstate 10 and just west of the Whitewater River.

The Oberon Renewable Energy Project is a 500-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility with integrated energy storage and a generation-tie line that connects into the statewide power grid.

Under an on-call contract with Western Area Power Administration, Aspen has been conducting biological and cultural surveys and monitoring for various task order projects.

Aspen Environmental Group is assisting the California State Lands Commission on behalf of Aurora Solar, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avangrid Renewables, with the environmental permitting and the CEQA documentation for a proposed 200 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic facility with up to 200 MW of integrated energy storage on approximately 3,570 acres of land managed by the CSLC, in San Bernardino County, CA.

The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) created a Land Use Plan Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan.

Aspen managed the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Topaz Solar Farm proposed by Topaz Solar Farms LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Solar, Inc.

The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) involves construction of a series of transmission system improvements extending from the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area in eastern Kern County to the Los Angeles Basin.

Western Area Power Administration and Aspen developed an EA (which mirrors an MND in many respects) and seven operation and maintenance (O&M) Plans and procedures in response to proposed changes in O&M procedures within Western’s Central Valley Project and Pacific AC Intertie ROWs and the Transmission Agency of Northern California’s (TANC) California-Oregon Transmission Project ROWs.

Aspen completed this 2,000-page document in 1992 for a Joint Review Panel consisting of Santa Barbara County, the State Lands Commission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and California EPA.

The Desert Harvest Solar Project is a solar photovoltaic facility that will generate 150 megawatts of electricity on an approximately 1,200-acre site characterized by undeveloped, non-agricultural land managed by the California Desert District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).