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Kern County Energy Fueling California for a Sustainable Future
Lorelei H. Oviatt, AICP Director
Kern County Planning And Community Development Department
661-862-8866 [email protected] August 3, 2015
http://www.co.kern.ca.us/planning/renewable_energy.asp
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Kern County Energy Sources
Oil and Natural Gas Wind Solar – Photovoltaic and Thermal Alternative Fuels Biodiesel Geothermal
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Kern County Renewable Energy Goal
Adopted by Board of Supervisors Feb 22, 2011 10,000 MW or 10 GW in production by 2015
County wide – cities, school and water districts
9723 MW permitted
270 MW in process
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10,OOO MW by 2015
8,000 construction jobs
1,500 operational jobs
$25 billion investment in Kern County Power for over 7 million people $150 million in new property tax revenue
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RENEWABLE PERMITTING
WE ( Wind Energy ) Combining DistrictCommercial Scale Wind – Established standards
Solar – onsite use - groundmount – Bldg permit
Solar – Utility Scale –Conditional Use Permit
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Source: Kern County, California
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Energy
Oil and Natural GasChevron renewed focus on Kern River field
Produced 2 billion barrels since 1899 New technology = another 1.5 billion barrels Reduced decline from 7% a year to 2% a year Occidential Petroleum – Largest Find in 35 years 500 million barrels of oil - $280 Million Gas plant
Natural Gas Ten Section Storage Project – 32.5 billion cubic feet Largest Natural gas baseload power plants in California
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Lessons Learned
New Substations need to be designed for multiple interconnections – Plug and Play
Uncoordinated private connection lines inefficient and duplicative
Need CAISO flexibility for connection point changes
Future transmission planning disconnected from land use projections
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Lessons Learned
Environmental review on Solar CEQA reform for cumulative impacts – site specific low impact- standard conditions could work
Property tax exemption = disincentive for commercial scale solar
Logical place may not be best place
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