Documents related to the Renewable Energy ProgramCDFW Data Portal RSS Feed GeneratorFri, 31 Jul 2026 09:33:26 -0700https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=RenewableEnergyCalifornia Department of Fish and Wildlife Data Portal120https://nrm.dfg.ca.govhttps://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/images/ca_dfg/CDFW-Insignia-146x193.png85en-usSearch Documentshttps://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=RenewableEnergysearchFatalityMonitoringReportSummit Wind Repower (2021) - This Avian and Bat Protection Plan (ABPP) has been prepared by Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (Jacobs) on behalf of Altamont Winds LLC (Altamont Winds) in support of the Summit Wind Repower Project (Summit Project). This ABPP was prepared to assess potential avian and bat impacts resulting from the construction and operation of the repowered facility and reduce or avoid potential avian and bat fatalities using reasonable and effective measures. The facility of old-generation turbines that preceded the Summit Project was decommissioned in 2016 to 2018, which involved the removal of approximately 569 lattice tower wind turbine generators (WTGs) and related above ground infrastructure. The installed capacity of the original wind energy facility was 56.9 MWs as documented in PLN2011-00102. Concrete turbine foundations that remain at the old facility will be removed in 2020 to 2021, after receipt of applicable permits, and restored to native grassland.246961:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246961Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:33:26 -07002021-04-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportGolden Hills North (2018) - This Avian Protection Plan (APP) has been prepared by NextEra Energy Resources (NextEra) in support of the Golden Hills North Wind Energy Facility Repowering Project (Project), located in portions of Alameda County in California (Figures 1 and 2), to address potential avian impacts resulting from the operation of the facility to reduce or avoid avian mortality. Golden Hills North Wind, LLC (Golden Hills North), a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra, repowered the existing wind energy facility with 20 new wind turbine generators at new pad locations, new access roads, new underground electrical collector lines, and other improvements to related infrastructure (Figure 3). The old generation project is in the process of being decommissioned, which will involve the removal of approximately 324 existing WTGs and associated infrastructure (including concrete foundations, transformers, and electrical equipment).246960:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246960Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:33:05 -07002018-08-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportGolden Hills North (2018-2020) - The Golden Hills North (GHN) Wind Energy Center is a 46-megawatt (MW) wind-energy facility comprising 20 2.3-MW turbines located in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) of Alameda County, California. This report summarizes the results of the first two of three years of postconstruction bird and bat fatality monitoring required to meet the conditions of approval outlined in the Conditional Use Permit (PLN2015-00157) issued for GHN (hereafter, "Project") by the East County Board of Zoning Adjustments in 2015. It also presents the results of weekly raptor activity surveys conducted from established points to provide context concerning raptor presence and activity patterns. The results presented here are preliminary and will not be finalized until the completion of the third and final year of scheduled mortality and raptor monitoring.246959:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246959Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:51 -07002021-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportRising Tree (2015) - While wind energy projects, or "wind farms", utilize a renewable-energy resource (wind), there are potential avian and bat effects resulting from their construction and operation. Interactions of birds and bats with generating facilities (including wind turbines, transmission and distribution lines, substations, and other associated structures and equipment) are potentially harmful or fatal to birds and bats. In addition to these direct effects, indirect effects include the potential to displace wildlife, either temporarily or permanently, during the facility's construction or operation.246907:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246907Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:38 -07002014-05-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportPacific Wind (2011) - enXco Development Corporation (enXco) is committed to siting, design, construction, and operation of renewable energy projects in an environmentally sustainable manner that avoids and minimizes the potential for impacts to birds and bats. This Bird and Bat Conservation Strategy (BBCS, formerly Avian and Bat Protection Plan) is intended to support enXco's compliance with federal and state statutes and regulations, through the implementation of procedures that shall be in force throughout the life of the Catalina Renewable Energy Project (project) to avoid and minimize impacts to birds and bats and their habitats, and compensate or mitigate for unavoidable impacts to these resources.246906:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246906Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:14 -07002011-12-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportCoram (2017) - Con Edison Development (CED) develops, owns and operates renewable and energy infrastructure projects. The company is an unregulated subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. [NYSE: ED], the nation's oldest and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies. Coram California Development, LP (CCDLP) comprises a 102-wegawatt (MW) wind energy facility located in the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area (TWRA) under CED ownership and management. Wind energy facilities utilize a renewable-energy resource that has potential impacts to birds and bats resulting from their construction and operation. Interactions with wind turbines and the associated infrastructure such as energy transmission, distribution, and substations may result in fatalities or indirect effects that may include displacement or habitat loss. CCDLP has developed this site-specific Bird and Bat Conservation Strategy (BBCS or Plan) for the Cameron Ridge/Section 15 wind energy project or the "Project". This Plan outlines various processes that have been and/or will be employed to: 1) comply with all state and federal avian and bat conservation and protection laws and regulations applicable to the Project; 2) ensure that any effects to avian and bat resources are identified, quantified, and analyzed; and 3) avoid, minimize, or mitigate potential effects consistent with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Wind Energy Guidelines (WEG; USFWS 2012) and the USFWS Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance (ECPG; USFWS 2013).246905:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246905Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:31:58 -07002017-12-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportAlta East B&B Conservation Strategy (2013) - Alta Windpower Development, LLC (AWD) proposes to construct the Alta East Wind Project in the Tehachapi region of southern California. Portions of the project would be located on land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and privately owned land under the jurisdiction of Kern County. The proposed development is a wind energy facility with a nameplate capacity rating of approximately 300 megawatts of wind turbine generation and includes ancillary facilities and supporting infrastructure. Up to 120 wind turbine generators (WTG) would be installed. The project includes repowering a historical wind power project site north of State Route (SR) 58 on BLM lands.246904:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246904Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:31:44 -07002013-02-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportManzana Winds 2013-2014 - Iberdrola Renewables has developed a wind-energy facility with a capacity of 189 megawatts in Kern County, California, approximately 18 miles northwest of the city of Rosamond. The Manzana Wind Facility consists of 126 1.5-megawatt wind turbines. This report is intended to satisfy the first year requirements of Mitigation Monitoring Measure 4.4-11/12 (Kern County 2008). This report will be jointly submitted to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kern County Planning Department and the Audubon Society. The fatality monitoring plan employed employs methods consistent with guidelines from the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative (NWCC, Strickland et al. 2011) and those described in the California Guidelines for Reducing Impacts to Birds and Bats from Wind Energy Development (CEC and CDFG 2007) but was designed to meet and exceed those standards. Fatality monitoring was conducted at the Manzana Wind Facility from March 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014.245586:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245586Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:55 -07002014-05-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportGolden Hills 2016-2019 - The Golden Hills Wind Energy Center (GHWEC) is an 85.92-megawatt (MW) repowered facility comprising 48 1.79-MW General Electric turbines located in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) of Alameda County, California. The facility is owned and operated by Golden Hills Wind, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, and began commercial operation in December 2015. This report summarizes the results of 3 years of postconstruction bird and bat fatality monitoring (Project) required to meet the conditions of approval outlined in the Conditional Use Permit (PLN2014-00032) issued for the GHWEC by the East County Board of Zoning Adjustments in 2014. The Alameda County Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) approved the monitoring plan, and H. T. Harvey & Associates implemented the monitoring effort beginning on September 19, 2016.243814:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243814Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:35 -07002021-01-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportPointwind & Oasis 2021-2022 - Terra-Gen, LLC (Terra-Gen) has developed the Pointwind and Oasis Wind Projects (Pointwind and Oasis or, collectively, the Projects), located in Kern County, California. Following the start of commercial operations in early 2021, Terra-Gen contracted Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. to develop and implement a standardized protocol for post-construction fatality monitoring to estimate the level of bird and bat mortality attributable to collisions with wind turbines at the Projects on an annual basis. The fatality monitoring study follows guidance described in Tier 4 of the US Fish and Wildlife Service Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines and the California Wind Energy Guidelines. This report presents the methods and results of the first year of monitoring at the Projects, conducted from June 1, 2021 to May 27, 2022. The full study will consist of three years of monitoring with an anticipated date of completion in May 2024.243828:7https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243828Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:31 -07002022-08-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportMontezuma II 2012-2013 - The Montezuma Wind II, LLC Wind Energy Center (Project) is a 78.2 MW project consisting of 34 2.3-MW Siemens turbines (hub height 80 m; minimum blade clearance 33.5 m above ground; maximum blade-tip height 126.5 m) distributed across approximately 1,105 hectares (2,731 acres) of mixed agricultural land in Solano County, California. This Project, which began producing power in March 2012, is one of several individual power plants that together comprise the overall Montezuma Hills Wind Resource Area (MHWRA; Figure 1).243824:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243824Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:22 -07002013-09-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportGolden Hills 2023-2025 - From April through October/early November in 2023 and 2024, Great Basin Bird Observatory (GBBO), in collaboration with H. T. Harvey & Associates, conducted the first two of three annual seasons of post-construction fatality monitoring for bats using trained scent-detection dogs at the Golden Hills (GH) Wind Energy Center in the Altamont Pass Wind Resources Area (APWRA). GH is an 85.92 MW facility, comprising 48 1.79-MW General Electric turbines, located in Alameda County, California, south of I-580 and east of the City of Livermore in an area of mixed agricultural use (primarily cattle grazing). This monitoring is focused on determining if adaptive management (AM) in the form of night-time cut-in-speed curtailment reduces the bat fatality rate at this facility compared to the results of 3 years of previous year-long monitoring with detection dogs conducted at the site from 2016-2019.244037:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=244037Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:04 -07002025-11-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportMontezuma I 2011-2012 - The Montezuma Wind LLC Wind Energy Center Facility (Montezuma I) is a 36.8-megawatt (MW) wind energy project in the Montezuma Hills Wind Resource Area (MHWRA) in California's Central Valley (Figure 1). The project comprises sixteen 2.3 MW Siemens wind turbines (Figures 2 and 3a) on 1,466 acres characterized by mixed agricultural uses and scattered wetland areas (Figure 3b). Nonnative annual grasslands used for sheep grazing and winter wheat are the predominant land uses, with some fields used to grow safflower and other crops. Small wetlands and small, widely scattered groves of Eucalyptus trees (Eucalyptus sp.) and native willows (Salix sp.) also occur within the project area. The project area is bordered on three sides by existing wind energy facilities and is thus considered an infill project.243823:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243823Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:59:00 -07002013-05-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportHigh Winds 2003-2005 - Post-construction avian and bat fatality monitoring study for the high winds wind power project. Solano county, California: two year report.243810:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243810Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:49 -07002006-04-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportShiloh II 2009-2012 - This report details the results of a three-year (2009-2012) study of post-construction fatalities and avian use (abundance and behavior) at the Shiloh II Wind Project, LLC (hereafter, Shiloh II). The Shiloh II project is located in the Montezuma Hills Wind Resource Area (MHWRA) in Solano County, California. Owned by EDF Renewable Energy, Inc. (f.k.a. enXco) and operating since 2008, Shiloh II has 75 wind turbines, each with a nameplate capacity of 2.0 MW.243825:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243825Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:24 -07002013-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportSolano Phase 3 2012-2013 - This report presents the results of the first year of avian and bat postconstruction monitoring at the Solano Wind Project, Phase 3. Surveys were conducted every 2 weeks at a 34% subset (19 turbines) of the total 55-turbine facility from July 2012 through June 2013. In accordance with the protocol developed for this project, these surveys were conducted by qualified biologists walking concentric rings spaced every 10 meters out to 100 meters from the base of each turbine.244038:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=244038Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:19 -07002013-09-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportRising Tree 2018-2019 - Rising Tree Wind Farm LLC, Rising Tree Wind Farm II LLC, and Rising Tree Wind Farm III LLC, each wholly owned subsidiaries of EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR), own and operate the Rising Tree I, II, and III wind energy projects (Projects or Rising Tree Projects) in Kern County, California.245440:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245440Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:13 -07002019-08-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportDillion 2008-2009 - Iberdola Renewables has developed a wind-energy facility with a capacity of 45 megawatts in Riverside County, California, approximately five miles northwest of the city of Palm Springs.243826:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243826Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:01 -07002009-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportShiloh Wind Energy Project 2006-2007 - The Shiloh I Wind Power Project Area is situated on roughly 6,800 acres of agricultural land in the Montezuma Hills, near Rio Vista in Solano County, California. The project consists of 100 wind turbines rated at 1.5 MW each for a total capacity of up to 150 MW. All one hundred turbines went on-line in March 2006. This report details the first year results of a three-year post-construction study of the Shiloh I wind power projects. This is the third fatality study of the newer turbine technology installed in the Collinsville Montezuma Hills Wind Resource Area (CMHWRA). These turbines are arrayed on similar landscape and habitat as that in which approximately 510 turbines of the older technology are deployed along with more than 200 turbines of the newer technology.243811:6https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243811Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:57 -07002007-09-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportVasco 2012-2015 - This report summarizes the results from the third year and all three years combined (2012-2015) of the avian and bat fatality monitoring and use surveys conducted at the repowered Vasco Winds, LLC, facility. Vasco Winds is located in southern Contra Costa County and situated within the northwestern portion of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) in central California.243816:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243816Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:53 -07002016-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportHatchet Ridge 2010-2013 - The Hatchet Ridge Wind Farm (Project) is a 44 turbine wind energy facility located in Shasta County California. In October 2010, Tetra Tech, Inc. (Tetra Tech) was contracted to develop and implement a post-construction mortality monitoring (PCMM) study plan which incorporated methods consistent with the California Energy Commission's California Guidelines for Reducing Impacts to Birds and Bats from Wind Energy Development. The study plan incorporated fatality monitoring at all turbines in the form of standardized carcass searches (biweekly and monthly), searcher efficiency and carcass persistence trials to adjust for inherent biases in estimating Project-related fatality rates, avian use surveys in Year One, and a Wildlife Education and Incidental Reporting. In October 2012, the Technical Advisory Committee providing Project oversight and guidance recommended a consecutive third year of the study243822:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243822Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:49 -07002014-04-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportOcotillo Wind I 2013-2014 - Pattern Energy, through Ocotillo Express Wind LLC (OE LLC) owns and operates the Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Facility (OWEF or Project) in Imperial County, California, which consists of 112 Siemens 2.3-megawatt (MW) wind turbines. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) / Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared for the Project. The Final EIS/EIR was released in February of 2012 and in May of 2012. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a Record of Decision (ROD) approving the development of the OWEF. The OWEF was constructed in 2012 and 2013, with the Project becoming fully operational in the fall of 2013243827:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=243827Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:45 -07002014-01-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportVasco 2022-2024 - From November 21, 2022, through November 27, 2024, Great Basin Bird Observatory and H. T. Harvey & Associates conducted 2 years of post-construction fatality monitoring for birds and bats at the Vasco Winds facility in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA). Vasco Winds is a repowered 78.2-MW facility comprising 34 2.3-MW Siemens turbines, located in Contra Costa County, California, north of I-580 and the City of Livermore in an area of mixed agricultural use (primarily cattle grazing).244039:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=244039Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:38 -07002025-10-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportShiloh III 2012-2013 - This interim report details the first-year results of a three-year (January 2012-January 2016) study of post-construction bird and bat fatalities and avian use (abundance and behavior) at the Shiloh III Wind Project, LLC (hereafter, Shiloh III). Shiloh III is located in the Montezuma Hills Wind Resource Area (MHWRA) in Solano County, California. Managed and leased by EDF Renewable Energy, Inc., (f.k.a enXco) and operating since December 2011, Shiloh III has 50 wind turbines, each with a nameplate capacity of 2.05 MW.244040:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=244040Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:31 -07002013-08-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportRising Tree 2015-2016 - Rising Tree Wind Farm LLC, Rising Tree Wind Farm II LLC, and Rising Tree Wind Farm III LLC (collectively referred to as Rising Tree), each wholly owned subsidiaries of EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR), own and operate the Rising Tree I, II, and III Wind Energy Projects (Projects) in Kern County, California.245438:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245438Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:27 -07002016-11-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportAlta I-V 2015-2016 - Alta Windpower Development, LLC (Alta Windpower) constructed and operates a wind energy facility in Kern County, California, referred to as the Alta Wind Energy Center. Following the start of operation of Phases I-V of the Alta Wind Energy Center (Alta I-V or "Project"), Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) was contracted by Alta Windpower to develop and implement study protocols for a 3-year post-construction bird and bat mortality monitoring study at Alta I-V consistent with Mitigation Measure 4.4-13 under the Alta-Oak Creek Mojave Draft Environmental Impact Report.245441:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245441Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:21 -07002019-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportAlta X 2014-2015 - Alta Wind X, LLC (Alta Wind X) has constructed a wind energy facility in Kern County, California, referred to as the Alta X Wind Energy Project ("Alta X" or the "Project"). Consistent with Mitigation Measure (MM) #63 of the Alta East Wind Project Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), Alta Wind X is committed to conducting avian and bat mortality monitoring at the Project during the first, second, and third years of operation. Following construction in the spring of 2014, Alta Wind X contracted Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) to develop and implement a study protocol for post-construction monitoring at the Project for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. The following report describes the methods and results of mortality monitoring conducted during the initial year of operation of the Project, March 2014 to March 2015.245442:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245442Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:16 -07002015-07-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportNorth Sky River 2013-2014 - North Sky River Energy LLC (NSRE LLC), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources (NextEra), has constructed a wind energy facility in Kern County, California, referred to as the North Sky River Wind Energy Facility (NSR). Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) was contracted by NSRE LLC to develop and implement study protocols for post-construction monitoring at NSR for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. Consistent with mitigation measures under the North Sky River Wind Energy Project and Jawbone Wind Energy Project Environmental Impact Report (EIR), WEST conducted fatality monitoring (MM 4.4-17) and breeding raptor monitoring (MM 4.4-16) during the initial year of operation of NSR, January 2013 to January 2014.245579:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245579Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:03 -07002014-03-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportCameron Ridge 2012-2013 - Coram California Development, L.P. (CCDLP) contracted M.H. Wolfe and Associates Environmental Consulting, Inc., to conduct a Bird and Bat Mortality Monitoring study, based on the plan submitted in 2009 and updated in 2012 (Wolfe 2012). The requirement for this plan and subsequent study can be found as mitigation measure number 13 within the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Lot Line Adjustment Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Cameron Ridge Wind Energy projects, Kern County, California (CEQA 2011). Furthermore, mitigation measure number 13(d) of the CEQA document requires that a Mortality Analysis consisting of the results from the previous year's study be analyzed and reported to the Kern County Planning Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).245445:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245445Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:48 -07002013-07-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportLower West Wind (2014-2015) - In 2012, Western Wind, LLC (WW) contracted Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) to conduct mortality surveys at the Lower West Wind Energy Project (Project) in Kern County, California, during the first, third, and fifth years of operation for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. In 2013, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, LP (BREP) purchased the Project from WW, at which time it was decided that WEST would continue the monitoring effort. The following document contains the results of the second year of mortality monitoring (third year of operation) conducted at the Project.246671:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246671Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:22 -07002014-12-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportNorth Sky River 2015-2016 - North Sky River Energy LLC (NSRE LLC), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources (NextEra), owns and operates a wind energy facility in Kern County, California, referred to as the North Sky River Wind Energy Facility (NSR). Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) was contracted by NSRE LLC to develop and implement study protocols for postconstruction monitoring at NSR for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. Consistent with mitigation measures under the North Sky River Wind Energy Project and Jawbone Wind Energy Project Environmental Impact Report (EIR), WEST conducted fatality monitoring (Mitigation Measure [MM] 4.4-17) and breeding raptor monitoring (MM 4.4-16) at NSR during the third year of operation from January 2015 to January 2016.245581:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245581Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:19 -07002016-06-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportNorth Sky River 2014-2015 - North Sky River Energy LLC (NSRE LLC), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources (NextEra), has constructed a wind energy facility in Kern County, California, referred to as the North Sky River Wind Energy Facility (NSR). Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) was contracted by NSRE LLC to develop and implement study protocols for post-construction monitoring at NSR for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. Consistent with mitigation measures under the North Sky River Wind Energy Project and Jawbone Wind Energy Project Environmental Impact Report (EIR), WEST conducted fatality monitoring (Mitigation Measure [MM] 4.4-17) and breeding raptor monitoring (MM 4.4-16) during the second year of operation of NSR, January 2014 to January 2015. Results of monitoring during the initial year of operation can be found in Levenstein et al. (2014).245580:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245580Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:15 -07002015-04-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportLower West Wind (2016-2017) - In 2012, Western Wind, LLC (WW) contracted Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) to conduct mortality surveys at the Lower West Wind Energy Project (Project) in Kern County, California, during the first, third, and fifth years of operation for the purpose of estimating the impacts of the wind energy facility on birds and bats. In 2013, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, LP (BREP) purchased the Project from WW, and it was decided that WEST would continue the monitoring effort on behalf of BREP. The following document contains the results of the third year of mortality monitoring (fifth year of operation) conducted at the Project.246672:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=246672Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:05 -07002017-12-01T00:00:00FatalityMonitoringReportPacific Wind 2012-2013 - EDF Renewable Energy (EDF-RE) constructed the 140-megawatt(MW) Pacific Wind Energy Project (project), located in south-central Kern County, California in 2012. Avian and bat fatality monitoring was conducted within the project boundary during the first year of operation, beginning in October 2012. The surveys summarized here constitute the first year of the postconstruction monitoring for Years 1,3, and 5, as required pursuant to the mitigation measures included in the project's Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Methods used to conduct the avian and bat fatality monitoring were adapted from the California Energy Commission (CEC) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Guidelines.245585:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=245585Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:55:58 -07002014-09-01T00:00:00Lucerne Valley Solar Project Request for Qualifications for assistance with CEQA Review (Desert Tortoise ITP and Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement) - This document is a request for qualifications for assistance with CEQA Review for an EIR to be conducted in relation to the potential environmental impacts of the Lucerne Valley Solar energy project by Celtic Energy Corporation.69175:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=69175Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:01:18 -07002013-07-12T00:00:00Private timberlands in Northern California - This map shows estimated private timberlands in Northern California. 93005:1https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=93005Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:56:12 -08002015-01-16T00:00:00