Sand Hill Wind Project

Sand Hill Wind Project

Sand Hill Wind, LLC has applied for a Conditional Use Permit for the repowering (removal and replacement) of 73 existing wind turbines equivalent to 4 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity with 40 shrouded wind turbines with a combined generating capacity of 4 MW, to assess the functionality of the new turbine design and the extent to which it could reduce impacts on birds and bats compared to the existing turbines. The project includes an avian impact validation study funded by a grant from the CA Energy Commission. The CUP application is for the repower of the 40 shrouded turbines (Initial Repower); however, the EIR also programmatically evaluates the impacts of future repowering of existing turbines up to an additional 30 MW of generating capacity (Full Repower).

Livermore

Alameda

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW)

Other (Phase 2 - Full Repower 30 add'l MW), Power:Wind (Megawatts 40-320)

Use Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Geology/Soils, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Septic System, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire