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P3planning is adept at negotiating some of the more challenging issues facing industry today. We have led controversial and technically complex planning, permitting, Section 106, and NEPA processes for large, multi-state projects with many competing interests and challenging resources issues. Our business is strategic and streamlined to best serve our clients’ needs for successful project outcomes and great long-term relationships. We can create custom project teams that partner the best practitioners with the unique challenges of a given undertaking.
P3 maintains excellent working relationships with agencies such as the BLM, USFS, BIA, USFWS, USACE, and SHPOs in New Mexico and Colorado, and has created award-winning mitigation. We also understand sensitive tribal consultation issues having worked with over 20 tribes across the western US. From the siting, permitting, and development for solar arrays, transmission lines, and other infrastructure to transportation-related inventories, P3 is a knowledgeable and responsible project partner, and is committed to completing our obligations in a timely, thoughtful, and cost-effective manner.
SELECT RECENT PROJECTS
SunZia Transmission Line: Various Counties, AZ/NM
P3 worked with Pattern Energy on the strategic permitting and mitigation efforts for the SunZia transmission line. This is the largest renewable energy project in the Western Hemisphere and includes 520 miles of 500kV HVDC lines that, when completed, will transport up to 4,500 megawatts of primarily renewable energy from New Mexico to markets in Arizona and California. Permitting and planning involved cooperation from 10 federal agencies, five state agencies and nine local authorities, as well as stakeholders at the local, state and national levels. SunZia completed a major milestone in May 2023 when the BLM issued a Record of Decision for SunZia and brought the decades-long NEPA process to a close.
RioSol Transmission Line: Various Counties, AZ/NM
P3 is working with MMR and the Southwestern Power Group to complete permitting, planning, and mitigation efforts for the proposed RioSol transmission line. This line collectively forms one of the largest renewable energy projects in the Western Hemisphere when combined with SunZia, which it parallels, and includes 520 miles of 500kV HVAC lines to transmit energy from New Mexico to markets in New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Permitting and planning involves many federal, state, and local agencies. The NEPA process for RioSol recently was completed in May 2023 and resource studies for biological and cultural resources are ongoing in 2025 with construction anticipated sometime in 2026.
Agua Fria Energy Cedarvale Wind Generation Facility: NM
Agua Fria Energy Cedarvale contracted with P3 to oversee all permitting efforts for a wind farm slated to deliver up to 1100MW on private and NMSLO lands. Permitting issues relate to ESA species; split estate and a federal mineral sale; cultural resources; FAA and DOD; county special use districts; NMSLO renewable energy leases; and NM PRC location control approval. We are work with project sponsor to develop technical memos, reports, PRC location control approval applications and other deliverables to help negotiate a wide range of planning, positioning, and regulatory hurdles on resource issues, engineering constraints, mitigation, and engagement strategies.