TY - RPRT
TI - Final Environmental Assessment LEEDCo Project Icebreaker Lake Erie, City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
AU - Parker, R
AU - Kerwin, K
AU - Kozlowski, D
AU - Wheatley, K
AB - Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation's (LEEDCo’s) Project Icebreaker (also known as Icebreaker Wind) was competitively selected for a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance award under Funding Opportunity Announcement U.S. Offshore Wind: Advanced Technology Demonstration Projects (DE-FOA-0000410). DOE is proposing to provide funding to LEEDCo to support the development of the demonstration-scale offshore wind project that would be located approximately 8 miles off the shore of Cleveland, Ohio in Lake Erie. This Environmental Assessment (EA) evaluates the potential environmental impacts of providing funding to LEEDCo to support the development of the offshore wind advanced technology demonstration project (the Proposed Action) and evaluates the impacts that could occur if DOE did not provide funding (No-Action Alternative). The Proposed Project would consist of six wind turbine generators erected on foundations constructed on the Lake Erie lakebed that would generate approximately 21 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Inter-array cables (connecting the wind turbines) and an export cable (transmitting electricity generated by the wind turbines to the shore) would be buried in the lakebed, and the export cable would be brought ashore entirely under the Cleveland Harbor and the Cleveland Harbor breakwater to a new electrical substation located at the existing Lake Road Substation. The energy generated by the Proposed Project would deliver power to a single point of interconnection on the existing Cleveland Public Power electric grid – the138 kilovolt (kV) Lake Road Substation.List of Appendices:A-1 : Public Scoping DocumentsA-2 : Draft EA Public Comment DocumentsB : Substation Layout PlanC : Favorability Analysis MapD : Substation and Cable Route Design ReportE-1 : LimnoTech Report – Results of 2016 Aquatic SamplingE-2 : LimnoTech Report – Results of 2017 Aquatic SamplingF-1 : Alpine Geophysical Survey ReportF-2 : McNeilan Windfarm Ground Conditions ReportF-3 : McNeilan Harbor & Nearshore Ground Conditions ReportG-1 : Sediment Quality Evaluation Technical MemorandumG-2 : Inadvertent Return Contingency PlanH : Substation Geotechnical and Subsurface Exploration ReportI : Aquatic Ecological Resource Characterization and Impact AssessmentJ : WEST NEXRAD AnalysisK : Tetra Tech Bird Survey ReportL-1 : WEST Summary of Risks to Birds and BatsL-2 : WEST Bird and Bat Annual Report 2018M-1 : Biological AssessmentM-2 : USFWS BA Concurrence LetterN : ODNR Division of Wildlife LetterO : Summary of Current Information Related to Electromagnetic Field Impacts on Fish and LEEDCo Proposed Transmission CableP : LimnoTech Boat SurveyQ : Characterization of Lake Erie IceR : Navigational Risk AssessmentS : Gray & Pape Cultural Resources ReportT-1 : Section 106 Geophysical Survey ReviewT-2 : Addendum to Section 106 Geophysical Survey ReviewU : Visual Impact AssessmentV-1 : Cultural Resources Effects AnalysisV-2 : OHPO and ACHP CorrespondenceW : Socioeconomic Report from EDR, January 2017X : Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and Avian and Bat Memoranda of Understanding
DA - 2018/09//
PY - 2018
SP - 181
PB - US Department of Energy (DOE)
SN - DOE/EA-2045
UR - https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/09/f55/EA-2045-LEEDCo-Final%20EA-2018.pdf
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Environmental Impact Assessment
ER -