Lorelei H. Oviatt, AICP Director Kern County Planning And Community Development Department August 3,

 Oil and Natural Gas  Wind  Solar – Photovoltaic and Thermal  Alternative Fuels  Biodiesel  Geothermal

 Adopted by Board of Supervisors Feb 22, 2011  10,000 MW or 10 GW in production by 2015  County wide – cities, school and water districts  9723 MW permitted  270 MW in process

 8,000 construction jobs  1,500 operational jobs  $25 billion investment in Kern County  Power for over 7 million people  $150 million in new property tax revenue

 WE ( Wind Energy ) Combining District Commercial Scale Wind – Established standards  Solar – onsite use - groundmount – Bldg permit  Solar – Utility Scale –Conditional Use Permit

Source: Kern County, California

 Oil and Natural Gas Chevron renewed focus on Kern River field Produced 2 billion barrels since 1899 New technology = another 1.5 billion barrels Reduced decline from 7% a year to 2% a year  Occidential Petroleum – Largest Find in 35 years 500 million barrels of oil - $280 Million Gas plant  Natural Gas Ten Section Storage Project – 32.5 billion cubic feet Largest Natural gas baseload power plants in California

 New Substations need to be designed for multiple interconnections – Plug and Play  Uncoordinated private connection lines inefficient and duplicative  Need CAISO flexibility for connection point changes  Future transmission planning disconnected from land use projections

 Environmental review on Solar CEQA reform for cumulative impacts – site specific low impact- standard conditions could work  Property tax exemption = disincentive for commercial scale solar  Logical place may not be best place