BayWa RE inks 90MW San Diego solar-storage offtake

• Jacumba Valley Ranch Energy Park is due online in 2023

BayWa RE has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with San Diego Community Power (SDCP) for power generated by a 90MW solar plus 70MW storage space plant in California.

The 20-year PPA is for outcome from the Jacumba Valley Ranch (JVR) Energy Park being established by BayWa RE near Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego County.

Construction of the project is readied to start in very early 2022 and also is anticipated to create about 350 building and construction work, utilizing a project labour arrangement with local unions.

JVR Energy Park is anticipated to get to complete operational standing in the initial quarter of 2023.

Once adjoined to the San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) transmission grid, the power plant will create adequate electricity to power at the very least 52,000 SDCP customer households each year.

SDCP was formed in 2019 as well as launched electrical energy supply solutions in March 2021 for local customers in the 5 participant cities of Chula Vista, Encinitas, Imperial Beach, La Mesa and San Diego.

It started offering business as well as industrial consumers in June 2021 and also will launch its property phase in the very first quarter of 2022.

The program supplies neighborhood control and consumer selection pertaining to energy decisions on a large scale for the first time in the area's history.

" The renewable energy produced as well as kept at the JVR Energy Park will certainly be an important fundamental block of SDCP's organized power supply portfolio," stated Joe Mosca, chair of the SDCP board and also Encinitas city councilmember.

" Collaborating with a skilled renewables developer such as BayWa RE offers us self-confidence that we will certainly fulfill our tidy energy and climate goals."

The Jacumba site, which contains level, formerly agricultural land situated beside SDG&E transmission infrastructure, makes it excellent to be able to offer SDCP's clients with tidy as well as dependable energy.

The Jacumba agreement stands for SDCP's initial solar and storage space PPA in San Diego County.

As part of the development plan, the project has dedicated to moneying renovations to the neighborhood community park as well as the preservation of 435 acres of native habitat.