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The Biden administration announced yesterday the advancement of 15 large renewable energy projects on public lands in the West. The projects include next week's geothermal lease sale across 12 counties in Northern Nevada, a new transmission line west of Phoenix, the completed construction of more than 800 megawatts of solar power in Southern California, progress on environmental reviews for seven solar projects proposed in Nevada, and a solar and battery storage project in Arizona. With these additions, the Biden administration has approved a total of 46 clean energy projects on BLM lands since 2021.
Once these projects are completed, they have the potential to achieve the Biden administration's goal to generate 25 gigawatts of onshore renewables on public lands by 2025. This would be enough to power approximately five million homes and would be a significant step toward the administration's broader objective of establishing a fully renewable energy grid by 2035.
“The projects we are advancing today will add enough clean energy to the grid to power millions of homes,” said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. “Through historic investments from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Interior Department is helping build modern, resilient climate infrastructure that protects our communities from the worsening impacts of climate change.”
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has pumped over $4 billion into the Mountain West in just two years
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a historic and ongoing investment in America’s natural and built environment. A new blog post from the Center for Western Priorities breaks down how this historic funding is being implemented across the West, with significant investments in wildfire preparedness and prevention, sagebrush steppe recovery and conservation, abandoned oil and gas well plugging and remediation, wildlife habitat and fish passage improvements, climate change adaptation, and more.
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I always say to my people when I’m working out there that what we do for Mother Nature is we give her a pedicure, a manicure, we even try to clean her up a little bit. But she’s going to the ball in the springtime; she’s going to put on her own dress. When you give her the opportunity, she knows how to dress herself up.”
