PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Location – Obsidian Solar Center LLC is developing a photovoltaic (pv) solar power generation facility in Lake County, Oregon, near Fort Rock and the three existing 500-kV transmission lines that make up the California Oregon Intertie.
Click here to see an overview of the project area. Click here to see a preliminary site boundary. Please note that this map shows alternatives currently being studied and considered. It does not represent the final site boundary or location of supporting facilities, such as point of interconnection, maintenance buildings, or transmission lines.
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Project Summary - The Obsidian Solar Center will consist of up to 4,000 acres and provide a nominal generating capacity of up to 400 MW ac (up to 680 MW dc), and an average generating capacity of up to 200 MW ac.
The facility will be organized like an industrial park: it will contain separate individual facilities all located within the fence around the industrial park. The Obsidian Solar Center will likely combine two types of technology: pv solar power generation technology, and battery storage technology. How the generation and storage technologies are combined and built will depend on the needs and preferences of the project/power buyer(s).
A complete application for site certificate has been filed with the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC), which has jurisdiction over the development of the solar park.
Click here to see an overview of the project area. Click here to see a preliminary site boundary. Please note that this map shows alternatives currently being studied and considered. It does not represent the final site boundary or location of supporting facilities, such as point of interconnection, maintenance buildings, or transmission lines.
Click here for a map showing tax lot numbers within the proposed site boundary, which coordinate to this table of property owners. If images are incomplete, try using a browser other than Chrome.
Project Summary - The Obsidian Solar Center will consist of up to 4,000 acres and provide a nominal generating capacity of up to 400 MW ac (up to 680 MW dc), and an average generating capacity of up to 200 MW ac.
The facility will be organized like an industrial park: it will contain separate individual facilities all located within the fence around the industrial park. The Obsidian Solar Center will likely combine two types of technology: pv solar power generation technology, and battery storage technology. How the generation and storage technologies are combined and built will depend on the needs and preferences of the project/power buyer(s).
A complete application for site certificate has been filed with the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC), which has jurisdiction over the development of the solar park.
Obsidian Solar Center LLC seeks to permit a range of technologies in order to preserve permitting flexibility and will specify the precise details of generation and storage during pre-construction final design engineering. The preliminary application for site certificate is being developed with the goal of offering maximum efficiency in terms of use of space and available technology.
- Project Need and Benefits - The project is slated to include up to 400-MW of utility-scale solar with energy storage to help replace Pacific Northwest coal plant retirements. The project is designed to be the largest and lowest cost solar facility in the Pacific Northwest.
- Economic Development and Job Creation: We anticipate that his project will provide between 50 and 100 construction jobs between 2019 and 2020 and over 500 construction jobs over 2021 and 2022. When the project is completed, the Solar Center will support 6 to 10 full time employees in ongoing Operations and Maintenance.
- Local Tax Revenue: Obsidian Solar center has entered into a property tax agreement with Lake County. At full construction we expect additional property tax revenue to be approximately $28 million over the life of the project, which will benefit local taxing districts such as the school district, health district, library and others.
- Timeline –The Obsidian Solar Center at Fort Rock is a flexible, large-scale solar and storage project under development scheduled to begin construction in 2019, pending issuance of a site certificate from EFSC. Initial permitting milestones will be completed in 2018. The project may be completed in steps through 2022 or 2023.