125-MW stage of California's Westlands Solar Park begins commercial operation

• The 125-MWAC very first stage of the Aquamarine solar project at Westlands Solar Park (WSP) in San Joaquin Valley, California, has gotten to commercial operations. The second 125-MW phase is expected to be operational by the end of the year. The project initially started construction in March 2020.

Aquamarine is supplying power to Valley Clean Energy Alliance as well as Silicon Valley Power.

"Bringing clean solar power to California from Aquamarine is a significant turning point in the realization of the full capacity of our 20,000-acre Westlands Solar Park. As one of the largest solar projects in the UNITED STATE, Westlands Solar Park, at complete build-out, will have the capability to deliver 2.7 GW of renewable resource, a considerable source to energies and organizations progressing their strategies to decrease carbon exhausts and also fulfill California's renewable resource goals," said Avi Shemesh, founder and principal, CIM Team.

Pacific Gas & Electric authorized Cal-ISO to connect Aquamarine to the power grid. Cal-ISO subsequently licensed Aquamarine to begin synchronization and also start a power generation test project giving power to the grid. The several-week test period was efficiently wrapped up as well as Aquamarine officially began commercial operations on September 17.

CIM Group is presently bargaining extra PPAs with various other prospective counterparties for Aquamarine and also future phases at WSP.

The master-planned energy park includes greater than 20,000 acres in California's San Joaquin Valley in western Fresno and also Kings Counties and is developed to open up in stages to satisfy the demands of public as well as private energies and also various other energy consumers.

CIM is repurposing selenium-contaminated and also drainage impaired farmland for the development of clean energy. On top of that, WSP looks for to boost air top quality in the San Joaquin Valley as the solar park does not produce fine certain pollution. The objective of CIM's clean energy projects is to provide remedies to numerous plan goals for the state of California's renewable resource mandate consisting of greenhouse gas reduction as well as carbon free energy.