The facilities, when ended by 2016, would add a keep steady of 831 megawatts of electricity-generating mass, ample to power 540,000 homes, the Rosemead act expected Monday. That represents a following unfold in Edison's ability to adopt power from the sun and other renewable sources.
"This is an unprecedented eon for solar photovoltaic," expected Marc Ulrich, evil be in first place for renewable and alternative power for Southern California Edison, a unit of Edison Cosmopolitan. "We're seeing growth in technological advances and hard work efficiencies that episode in competitive prices for green, emission-free energy for our patrons."
In 2009, Edison obtained 13.6 billion kilowatt-hours of power from renewable sources, about 17% of its count up power generation. That renewable electricity was generated by 3,296 megawatts of wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and small hydropower facilities, with solar mobile minimally 382 megawatts of mass, according to the utility's website. Edison spokeswoman Vanessa McGrady expected the megawatt keep steady for solar and count up renewable power had better considering thus, but she was incapable to be higher say.
The arrogant of the two deals involves SunPower Corp., a San Jose company that hand down build and masterpiece three installations addition about 711 megawatts, through a 325-megawatt machinery in Rosamond, Calif. That installation, to be ended in 2016, hand down be one of the nation's main.
SunPower in the same way hand down build a 276-megawatt photovoltaic struggle in Rosamond, owing to start in 2016, and a 110-megawatt machinery in Los Banos, Calif., which is set to start in 2014.
Howard Wenger, be in first place of SunPower's act and power plants business common, expected the contracts reflect "the on the rise appreciate of solar photovoltaic technology as a rock-hard, helpful energy resource delivered on both sides of rooftops or as a central-station power plant."
Edison's pass quickly supportive is with Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Inc., which is headquartered in Madrid but has an domain in San Francisco.
The utility's hint at with Fotowatio Renewable calls for four minor installations in Lancaster and the Kern Province towns of Lamont, Arvin and Mojave. They hand down mixture from 20 megawatts to 60 megawatts in mass and are so-called to be functioning by the end of 2013.
