RURAL DESERTSOUTHWEST BROWNFIELDS

COALITIONMINERAL COUNTY, NVRENEWABLE ENERGY

RESOURCES

SOLAR RESOURCE DISCUSSION AND SOURCES The top left two maps show solar resource for Concentrating SolarPower (CSP) and tilted Photovoltaic (PV). CSP uses Direct NormalInsolation (DNI) data and PV uses solar resource available to aphotovoltaic panel, oriented south at an angle. The solarresource is in units of kWh/m2/day annually averaged for 1998-2009 over 10 sq km surface cells. The data was developed by SUNYAlbany and National Renewable Energy Laboratory - NREL (2012),and are available from http://www.nrel.gov/gis/data_solar.html.Values at 7.0+ (CSP) and 6.5+ (PV) kWh/m2/day are consideredexcellent potential.

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE DISCUSSION AND SOURCES The top right map ranks favorability for Geothermal Potentialon the ability to predict geothermal systems based on manyfactors as related to known geothermal systems. These data werepresented in the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 151 byCoolbaugh and Others (2005). The map and data are available athttp://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Geothermal/index.html.

WIND RESOURCE DISCUSSION AND SOURCES The lower left map shows the annual average Wind Resource at50-meter height above ground surface based upon potential WindPower Density in W/m2 (watts per meter squared). Wind power isdivided into seven classes where class 3 or greater areas aresuitable for most utility-scale wind turbine applications,class 2 areas are marginal for utility-scale applications butmay be suitable for rural applications, and class 1 areas(not shown) are generally not suitable. This data wasdeveloped by AWS TrueWind/NREL (2003), and is availablefrom http://www.nrel.gov/gis/data_wind.html/.

BIOMASS RESOURCE DISCUSSION AND SOURCES The lower center map displays the location of Great BasinPinyon-Juniper Woodland. For information about Pinyon-JuniperWoodland as a biomass energy resource see the Lincoln CountyRegional Development Authority at http://lcrda.com/index.html.Mapped Pinyon-Juniper woodlands were extracted from the SouthwestRegional GAP Landcover (SWReGAP, 2004) for Arizona, Nevada, andUtah and the California GAP Landcover (2008), available,respectively, at http://earth.gis.usu.edu/swgap/landcover.html andhttp://gap.uidaho.edu/index.php/california-land-cover/.

TRANSMISSION AND LAND STATUS DISCUSSION AND SOURCES The lower right map shows land status in background, available fromAZ, CA, NV, & UT BLM websites. Water bodies and excluded federallands from the BLM/DOE Final Programmatic EIS for Solar EnergyDevelopment in Six Southwestern States (FES 12-24 DOE/EIS-0403; July2012) are available at http://solareis.anl.gov/maps/gis/index.cfm.Excluded federal lands are shown in white. Electricutility (yellow haloed names) service areas are delineated by yellowbuffered dashed outlines. Service areas are from the Nevada RuralElectric Association, Valley Electric Association (VEA), NV Energy,and the California Energy Commission. An overlay of photointerpretedtransmission lines and substations (including switches) forcapacities 230 kV or greater are also shown. Selected transmissionlines and substations with lesser capacities are shown for theintertie area between VEA and Southern California Edison serviceareas. Transmission facilities are provided for informationalpurposes and may not be complete, especially outside the RDSBC.

OTHER DATA DISCUSSION AND SOURCES Roads and State/County boundaries are from or modified from USCensus TIGER data, 2011. Towns and Cities are from ESRI 2010data. Hillshade was developed from the Shuttle Radar TopographyMission (SRTM) 90m Database (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org).

California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

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118°0'0"W

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CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER (CSP) RESOURCE

California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

118°0'0"W

118°0'0"W

118°30'0"W

118°30'0"W

119°0'0"W

119°0'0"W

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WIND POWER RESOURCE

California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

118°0'0"W

118°0'0"W

118°30'0"W

118°30'0"W

119°0'0"W

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PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SOLAR RESOURCE

California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

118°0'0"W

118°0'0"W

118°30'0"W

118°30'0"W

119°0'0"W

119°0'0"W

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39°0

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38°3

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38°3

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38°0

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BIOMASS RESOURCE

California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

118°0'0"W

118°0'0"W

118°30'0"W

118°30'0"W

119°0'0"W

119°0'0"W

39°0

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39°0

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38°3

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GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE

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California

Nevada

Schurz

MammothLakes

Yerington

Hawthorne

MaderaCounty

ChurchillCounty

EsmeraldaCounty

LanderCounty

LyonCounty

NyeCounty

MonoCounty

118°0'0"W

118°0'0"W

118°30'0"W

118°30'0"W

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TRANSMISSION AND LAND STATUS

Geothermal ResourceFavorability

1 - Most Favorable2 - Very Favorable3 - Favorable4 - Marginally Favorable5 - Permissable

Wind Power at 50m HeightWind Power Class

7 - Superb6 - Oustanding5 - Excellent4 - Good3 - Fair2 - Marginal

Biomass ResourcePinyon-Juniper Woodland

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Land StatusPrivateLocal and StateFederal and Indian

Federal LandsExcluded Lands

The maps focus on Mineral County, Nevada, one of the six county RuralDesert Southwest Brownfields Coalition (RDSBC) members. The otherCounty members are Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye and White Pine, Nevadaand Inyo, California. In the maps the counties other than MineralCounty have a transparent white overlay that subdues their display.

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UTM, Zone 11, MetersTransverse Mercator

NAD83/GRS80

Annual Average Kilowatt Hoursper Meter Squared per Day(kWh/m2/day)

8.5 - 9.0 8.0 - 8.57.5 - 8.07.0 - 7.56.5 - 7.06.0 - 6.5< 6.0

CSP Resource

Annual Average Kilowatt Hoursper Meter Squared per Day(kWh/m2/day)

7.0 - 7.5 6.5 - 7.06.0 - 6.5< 6.0

PV Resource