[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 250 (Tuesday, December 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72351-72352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-28262]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15009-000]


Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and 
Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications; 
Renewable Energy Aggregators

    On October 2, 2019, Renewable Energy Aggregators filed an 
application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 
Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the JD Sky 
Pumped Storage Hydro Project to be located in Maricopa County, Arizona. 
Renewable Energy Aggregators subsequently amended its application on 
October 11, 2019. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, 
is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application 
during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the 
permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities or

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otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the 
owners' express permission.
    The proposed project would consist of the following: (1) An upper 
reservoir having a total storage capacity of 13,900 acre feet with a 
crest elevation of 3,050 feet mean sea level (msl), a maximum pool 
elevation of 3,040 feet msl, and a surface area of 150 acres; (2) a 
lower reservoir having a total storage capacity of 13,900 acre feet 
with a crest elevation 1,080 feet msl, a maximum pool elevation of 
1,800 feet msl, and a surface area of 290 acres; (3) two 19-foot-
diameter, 12,160-foot-long penstocks and two 21-foot-diameter, 3,00-
foot-long tailraces; (4) a 750-foot-long, 175-foot-high, 70-foot-wide 
containing as many as four advanced ternary pumped storage single 
runner units with a total capacity of 800 megawatts; (5) twin circuit 
500-kilovolt, 40-mile-long transmission lines that would connect to an 
existing transmission line owned by the Arizona Public Service Company 
or Salt River Project \1\ or extend to an interconnect at the 
Hassayampa or Palo Verde substations; and (6) appurtenant facilities. 
Initial fill and makeup water would be acquired from the Colorado River 
region and conveyed to the project via the existing Central Arizona 
Project aqueduct. The estimated annual generation of the Project would 
be 311,000 megawatt hours.
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    \1\ Salt River Project is a not-for-profit water and energy 
company that provides water and power to more than 2 million people 
living in central Arizona.
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    Applicant Contact: Mr. Adam Rousselle, Renewable Energy 
Aggregators, 2113 Middle Street Suite 201, Sullivans Island, South 
Carolina 29482; phone: (267) 254-6107.
    FERC Contact: Benjamin Mann; Email: [email protected]; phone: 
(202) 502-8127.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. 
Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements 
of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the 
eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy to: 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, 
Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-15009-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's website at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 
Enter the docket number (P-15009) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: December 23, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-28262 Filed 12-30-19; 8:45 am]
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