The Bureau of Land Management plans to sell a parcel of land to a solar developer in Arizona.
In a Federal Register notice to be published Tuesday, BLM proposes to sell a 640-acre parcel in La Paz County to 174 Power Global, the developer of multiple solar projects in Arizona. The company is owned by Hanwha Renewables, a subsidiary of the Korean firm Hanwha.
One of its projects, called the Atlas North Energy Project, is largely on lands managed by the Arizona State Land Department. The parcel BLM plans to sell is “completely surrounded by State leased land for the Atlas North Energy Project,” said June Lowery, a spokesperson for BLM’s Gila District.
The Atlas North project, which includes a solar farm and battery storage component, is close to the Jove Solar Project, a proposal by the same developer that is largely on federal land in rural, southwestern Arizona. It is one of around 20 solar proposals that have recently gotten permission from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to be reviewed by BLM after federal agencies essentially halted all renewable projects under consideration when President Donald Trump came into office last year, POLITICO’s E&E News previously reported.
