EDPR Secures 15-Year PPA for 100 MW New California Solar Park

• EDPR with as well as Redwood Coast Energy Authority have actually carried out a 15-year PPA for 100 MW for the Sandrini Sol 1 Solar Park in Kern County, California.

EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), with its totally possessed subsidiary EDP Renewables North America, and also Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) have actually performed a 15-year power acquisition contract (PPA) for 100 megawatts (MW) for the Sandrini Sol 1 Solar Park in Kern County, California.

Found near Bakersfield, the 100 MW solar park is anticipated to be functional in 2022 as well as stands for a projected capital expense of greater than USD 100 million. The project will certainly produce sufficient tidy electrical energy to each year power greater than 46,000 typical California houses as well as will certainly conserve roughly 177 million gallons of water a year.

As the solar park's only off-taker with the lasting PPA, RCEA will certainly get 100 percent of the project outcome. RCEA is a neighborhood option collector offering greater than 60,000 consumers in Humboldt County. This project will certainly produce adequate electrical power to satisfy around 45 percent of RCEA consumers' need. The project will certainly enhance the a number of regional solar projects that are likewise under growth, consisting of RCEA's 2.5 MW solar and also storage space microgrid project at the Redwood Coast Airport in addition to PPAs for one more 3 MW of neighborhood solar projects that were lately accepted with RCEA's feed-in-tariff program.

" The State has actually established a target for a 100 percent eco-friendly as well as tidy electrical energy mix by 2045, as well as RCEA has actually developed the enthusiastic goal of striking that target 20 years early, in 2025," claimed RCEA Executive Director Matthew Marshall. "By offering sufficient budget-friendly, renewable resource to satisfy practically fifty percent of our consumers' present electrical power requirements, the Sandrini Sol project is a significant action towards attaining our neighborhood power and also environment objectives."

This arrangement expands RCEA as well as EDPR's collaboration and also advances both firms' dedications to expanding renewable resource in California, keeping in mind RCEA, EDPR, as well as others likewise revealed on April 2, 2018, their entry right into a public-private collaboration to seek the advancement of an overseas wind power project off the Northern California coastline.

" EDP Renewables is thrilled to deal with RCEA on the advancement of one more renewable resource project to react to the boosting need for even more tidy power remedies in California," stated Miguel Prado, EDP Renewables North America CEO. "Sandrini Sol 1 stands for EDP Renewables' growing existence in the California renewable resource market as well as strengthens our dedication to buying the state."

EDPR's functional impact in California consists of 2 stages of the Lone Valley Solar Park in San Bernardino County and also 3 stages of the Rising Tree Wind Farm in Kern County-- every year powering greater than 101,000 ordinary California houses. EDPR NA will certainly likewise build the Sonrisa Solar Park, including 200 MW of solar capability as well as 40 MW of storage space capability, in Fresno County, as well as the 200 MW Sandrini Sol 2 Solar Park in Kern County, which are both expected to be functional in 2022.