Summary
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) prepared an EA (DOE/EA-2094) for the Philip Wind Energy Center Interconnection Request. Philip Wind Partners, LLC (Philip Wind Partners or Applicant) proposes to construct the private Philip Wind Project (Wind Facility) on private land north of the town of Philip in Haakon County, South Dakota. The Wind Facility would interconnect to WAPA’s existing Oahe to New Underwood 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line at a new Philip North Switchyard.
The interconnection request was analyzed in an Environmental Assessment (EA) tiered from the analysis conducted for the Upper Great Plains Wind Energy Programmatic EIS (DOE/EIS-0408). WAPA evaluated the potential environmental impacts of the interconnection request and found that the Proposed Action does not significantly affect the quality of the human environment. As a result, a Finding of No Significant Impact was prepared in accordance with NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4336) and the DOE’s NEPA implementing regulations at 10 CFR 1021.322.
WAPA has more information on the Philip Wind project website.