Notice2025-18995

Nightfall Renewables Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications

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September 30, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46875-46876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18995]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15407-000]


Nightfall Renewables Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On June 24, 2025, Nightfall Renewables Inc. filed an application 
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power 
Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Juniper Pumped 
Storage Project to be located in Los Angeles County, California. The 
sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 
holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A 
preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any 
land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters 
owned by others without the owners' express permission.
    The proposed project would consist of the following new facilities: 
(1) a 320-foot-high, 2,330-foot-long concrete upper reservoir dam that 
would impound an 110-acre upper reservoir with a storage capacity of 
11,000 acre-feet at a water surface elevation of 3,840 feet above mean 
sea level; (2) a 300-foot-wide, 5-foot-high, and 750-foot-long spillway 
on the upper dam; (3) ten 70-foot-high, 50-foot-wide, and 120-foot to 
200-foot-long lower reservoirs that would be 5,000 feet underground 
with a total volume for each reservoir of 1,000 acre-feet; (4) fifty-
six 18-foot-wide, 16-foot-high, and 10-foot-long concrete bulkheads 
within the lower reservoirs; (5) a 4,800-foot-long, 26-foot-diameter 
steel and concrete lined vertical headrace shaft connected to ten 10-
foot-wide, 580 foot-long headrace penstock pipes; (6) ten 157-foot-
long, 65-foot-wide, 92-foot-high underground turbine powerhouses with 
one Pelton turbine and generator each; (7) ten 157-foot-long, 65-foot-
wide, 125-foot-high pump powerhouses with two radial storage pumps and 
motors; (8) ten 18-foot-wide, 16-foot-high, 170-foot-long tailraces; 
(9) fifteen 18-foot-wide, 16-foot-high access tunnels; (10) one 18-
inch-diameter, 6-mile-long steel water supply pipeline; (11) 5 miles of 
access roads; (12) a rock stockpile site; (13) two 3-mile-long, 230-
kilovolt transmission lines; (14) one 3-mile-long 500-kilovolt 
transmission line; and (15) appurtenant facilities. The proposed 
project would have an estimated annual generation of 14,600,000 
megawatt hours.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. Benjamin Wayne Mossman, Nightfall 
Renewables, President, 1420 Rocky Ridge Drive, Suite 260, Roseville, CA 
95661; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c7e71736f6f717d725c72757b74687a7d70706e7972796b7d7e70796f327f7371"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ae8e7e5f9f9e7ebe4cae4e3ede2feecebe6e6f8efe4effdebe8e6eff9a4e9e5e7">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>; phone: (661) 310-2635.
    FERC Contact: Jane Dalgliesh; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3f555e515a115b5e535853565a4c577f595a4d5c11585049"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0b616a656e256f6a676c67626e78634b6d6e7968256c647d">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>; 
phone: (503) 552-2718.
    Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing 
applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file 
competing applications: on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 
24, 2025. Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the 
requirements of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports 
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission 
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, 
community organizations, Tribal members and others, access publicly 
available information and navigate Commission processes. For public 
inquiries and assistance with making filings such as interventions, 
comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is encouraged to 
contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6d223d3d2d0b081f0e430a021b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eaa5babaaa8c8f9889c48d859c">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications using the Commission's eFiling system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/eFiling.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/eFiling.aspx</a>. Commenters can submit brief comments 
up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment 
system at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspx</a>. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aaeceff8e9e5c4c6c3c4cff9dfdadac5d8deeacccfd8c984cdc5dc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="85c3c0d7c6caebe9ecebe0d6f0f5f5eaf7f1c5e3e0f7e6abe2eaf3">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>, (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: 
Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent 
via any other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-15402-000.

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    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of 
Commission's website at <a href="https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search">https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search</a>. 
Enter the docket number (P-15407) in the docket number field to access 
the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.

    Dated: September 25, 2025.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-18995 Filed 9-29-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P


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