Clearway Energy Group finishes 192-MW Rosamond Central solar project

• Clearway Energy Group revealed that it completed building and reached business operation on the 192-MW Rosamond Central solar project in Kern County, California. Rosamond Central is acquired under PPAs with East Bay Community Energy and Clean Power Alliance, both Community Choice Aggregators offering a varied range of power choices to local consumers, and the City of Palo Alto Utilities, which has actually administered Palo Alto's electrical power system for 120 years.

" We are proud to proceed adding to California's goal of 100% clean electricity and maintain the state on the leading edge of climate management," said Valerie Wooley, VP of origination at Clearway Energy Group. "In a year with countless headwinds, Rosamond Central collaborated thanks to the devotion and initiative of many companions, including McCarthy's quick action to produce a risk-free working environment, as well as the depend on of East Bay Community Energy, Clean Power Alliance and City of Palo Alto to fulfill their clients' need for clean, reputable and also low-cost renewable resource."

" We're thrilled to have power projects like Rosamond come online as well as start serving our consumers with tidy energy that will keep long-lasting price security. This project has actually provided us the chance to develop much needed tasks and allowed us to meet California's enthusiastic renewable energy objectives ahead of timetable," claimed Natasha Keefer, supervisor of power preparation as well as purchase, Clean Power Alliance.

" This marks the very first brand-new utility-scale solar project developed to offer EBCE clients with tidy, budget friendly, renewable resource," said EBCE CEO Nick Chaset. "EBCE's 112 megawatts from this project lays the foundation of our portfolio of projects that will certainly offer our electrical energy clients throughout Alameda County."

" The City of Palo Alto Utilities has actually been providing 100% carbon neutral electrical power to our clients considering that 2013, and we've been proud to do so while preserving extremely affordable prices compared to bordering utilities," said Dean Batchelor, utilities director. "This brand-new power acquisition arrangement additionally boosts our capacity to supply clean, renewable resource at an inexpensive rate, sustaining our utility's mission as well as citywide sustainability and environment action objectives. With the enhancement of 26 MW produced by the Rosamond project to our energy portfolio, solar power will now provide nearly half of Palo Alto's overall electric needs every year."

Building And Construction of Rosamond Central began in February and was led by McCarthy Building Companies. More than 600 tasks were created during building and construction and the site will sustain numerous long-term operations as well as upkeep jobs. The solar website likewise represents a $5 million financial investment in Kern County through tax obligation earnings to support location civil services as well as will certainly create enough tidy power to power more than 71,000 homes every year.

This year, Clearway partnered with East Bay Community Energy to disperse $250,000 in grants to more than two dozen community-based companies in Alameda County offering emergency situation alleviation and to buy individual safety equipment for location frontline workers as well as at-risk neighborhood participants during the pandemic.

Clearway is just one of the biggest renewable resource firms in the state with regarding 1,800 MW of running renewable resource properties. Rosamond Central will certainly increase Clearway's footprint in Kern County, where the company has and operates 1,053 MW of wind and also solar energy possessions and adds about $20,000,000 in annual property taxes to the neighborhood economy.

In December, Clearway revealed a joint equity deal for a 1.6 GW portfolio that includes Rosamond Central.