State of Oregon: Facilities - Sunrise Solar and Storage Projects

Applicant/Certificate holder:

Site Description:

Pacificorp (applicant) proposes to construct and operate the Sunrise Solar and Storage Projects (facility), a photovoltaic solar energy generation facility paired with a battery energy storage system (BESS), located in unincorporated Morrow County, Oregon. The proposed facility would consist of solar arrays with up to 800 megawatts (MW) of solar generation and a BESS with up to 800 MW of energy storage capacity, and related or supporting facilities including inverters, transformers, a 34.5 kilovolt (kV) collection system, Operations and Maintenance building, one or more 230 kV generation-tie lines, facility service and access roads, perimeter fencing, and temporary construction areas. The applicant also proposes a new collector substation to step up and interconnect the facility to the future Boardman to Hemingway 500-kV transmission line to be located in Morrow County, northeast of the site boundary. The proposed site boundary encompasses 6,981 acres of privately-owned, exclusive farm use zoned land, northeast of Ione in Morrow County.

Status:

Under Review/Proposed. On February 27, 2025, the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE or Department) received a Notice of Intent to File an Application for a Site Certificate (NOI) for the Sunrise Solar and Storage Projects (facility).

The Department has issued a Public Notice of the NOI and opened a public comment period on the NOI. The Public Notice includes additional information about how to participate in the review of the NOI, details about how to comment, and a Public Informational Meeting. The Public Notice is available in the Project Timeline below.

Public comments can be submitted to the Department in writing via mail, email, and through ODOE's Comment Portal: Siting Public Comment · Customer Self-Service (Select “Sunrise Solar and Storage Projects" from the drop down menu and follow prompts to submit comments)

The Public Informational Meeting will be held on April 24, 2025 in person at the Port of Morrow and also can be attended virtually via webinar. Details on how to attend and participate in the Public Informational Meeting are in the Public Notice, available below.

The Public Comment period on the NOI closes on May 23, 2025. Public Comments must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on May 23, 2025 in order to be considered in the Project Order. The Department anticipates issuing the Project Order in July 2025.

Location:

Morrow County, approximately 1 mile northeast of Ione.

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Pacificorp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company.

ODOE contact: Kathleen Sloan

Applicant/Certificate holder contact: Jeffrey Wagner

Project Timeline

Milestone	Additional Documents	Display Date
Notice of Intent		02/27/2025
Public Notice of Public Meeting and Comment Period		03/26/2025
Public Informational Meeting on NOI		04/24/2025
Deadline to submit public comments on NOI		05/23/2025