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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 Loreleio@co.kern.ca.us August 3, 2015
http://www.co.kern.ca.us/planning/renewable_energy.asp
Kern County Energy Sources
Oil and Natural Gas Wind Solar – Photovoltaic and Thermal Alternative Fuels Biodiesel Geothermal
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
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
RENEWABLE PERMITTING
WE ( Wind Energy ) Combining DistrictCommercial Scale Wind – Established standards
Solar – onsite use - groundmount – Bldg permit
Solar – Utility Scale –Conditional Use Permit
Source: Kern County, California
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
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
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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