Summary
DOE’s Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) prepared DOE/EA-1590 for a proposed wind turbine electrical generation facility in Jerauld County, South Dakota, 2 miles south of the city of Wessington Springs. The proposed Wessington Springs Wind Project would consist of 34 wind turbine generators, new and improved roads, an operations and maintenance building, a 34.5-kilovolt (kV) underground collection system, a collector substation, an interconnect substation next to an existing WAPA 230-kV transmission line, and a fiber optic communication system.