Transmission for the Transition

Renewable Energy Resources

- Renewables and Public Lands
- Guided Development
- Doing It Right
- Saving Energy Saves Lands

The Wilderness Society works to ensure that transmission development on public lands avoids impacts to important wildlands and supports transport of renewable energy over new fossil fuel generation sources.

America’s Energy Grid: Our webpage with resources for corridor processes underway as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005

Transmission projects on public lands that TWS is engaged in:

• SunZia Southwest Transmission Project: A set of proposed transmission lines connecting wind and solar resources in New Mexico and Arizona.
  • BLM website for SunZia proposal
  • TWS key points for SunZia proposal
  • TWS scoping comments on SunZia proposal
  • TWS June 2010 supplemental scoping comments on SunZia proposal

• Tri-State/Xcel Proposed San Luis Valley Transmission Line: This proposed transmission line over La Veta Pass into Colorado’s San Luis Valley is intended to increase the area’s transmission reliability and to access solar resources in the San Luis Valley. The USDA’s Rural Utility Service is currently accepting scoping comments on the proposed routes for the line.
  • Website for the proposed line
  • TWS scoping comments on the proposed lines
     
• New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority: Created by state law in 2007, RETA was designed to plan and finance new transmission projects to support renewable energy within New Mexico. RETA has developed a map of draft transmission corridors around the state intended to serve high-potential renewable energy areas and is currently refining them with public input.
  • RETA website
  • TWS comments on proposed RETA transmission corridors
     
• TransWest Express Transmission Project
  The TransWest Express Transmission Project is a proposed 600 kV direct current transmission line that crosses parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The project intends to carry renewable energy generated in Wyoming to the Las Vegas area.
  • BLM website for the project
  • TWS scoping comments
     
• Gateway South Transmission Project
  The Gateway South Transmission Project is a proposed 500 kV overhead, alternating current transmission line that would cross more than 400 miles in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.
  • BLM website for the project
  • TWS scoping comments

Contacts

Chase Huntley
Policy Advisor, Energy and Climate Change
202-429-7431
EMAIL

Alex Daue
Renewable Energy Coordinator, BLM Action Center
303-650-5818 x 108
EMAIL

Pam Eaton
Deputy Vice President, Public Lands Campaign
303-650-5818 x 103
EMAIL

Jennifer Dickson
Communications Manager, BLM Action Center
202-556-2933
EMAIL