2 EDF Renewables utility-scale solar farms begin operation in California
- EDF Renewables finished and began commercial procedure of the Maverick 1 (173.4 MWdc) and also Maverick 4 (135.9 MWdc) Solar Projects. Maverick 1 offers 125 MWac of electrical power to Southern California Edison under a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), while Maverick 4 supplies 100 MWac power and eco-friendly credit to Shell Energy North America under a 15-year PPA.
The two projects, part of the Palen Solar portfolio, are located adjacent to each other on unincorporated land in Riverside County, California, provided by the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM marked this area as a Solar Energy Zone (SEZ) and Development Focus Area, land alloted for utility-scale renewable energy advancement. Both projects contain horizontal single-axis tracking solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) innovation.
" EDF Renewables is pleased to partner with Southern California Edison as well as Shell to assist California meet its clean power and low-carbon goals via the Maverick Solar Projects," said Ryan Pfaff, executive VP, Grid-Scale Power at EDF Renewables. "The support of neighborhood, state as well as federal government is critically important to sustainable growth as well as we give thanks to all those that sustained this project via its growth."
In addition to financial advantages for Riverside County, the projects incorporated produce sufficient clean power to satisfy the usage of up to 110,000 ordinary California homes1. This amounts preventing greater than 498,000 statistics tons of CO emissions annually2 which stands for the greenhouse gas discharges from 107,000 guest cars driven over the course of one year.
"We recognize the willpower demonstrated by the project groups, including our construction as well as supplier companions, in securely finishing the projects during the pandemic," claimed Benoit Rigal, VP of design as well as construction.
EDF Renewables' Asset Optimization group will certainly execute operations and upkeep services for the life of the project. The team will certainly offer NERC compliance assistance, remote tracking and also balance-of-plant monitoring to take full advantage of power manufacturing.
