Leeward Renewable Energy establishing a 102-MW solar + storage project in California
- Peninsula Clean Energy entered a 15-year solar + storage PPA involving Leeward Renewable Energy's 102-MW Chaparral Solar Facility in Kern County, California. As part of the arrangement, Peninsula Clean Energy will additionally purchase the energy as well as ability from Chaparral's 52-MW/208 MWh battery storage space system.
Peninsula Clean Energy's board of directors accepted the PPA on September 25, which is the organization's first to include a solar + storage space project. The Chaparral project will enable Peninsula Clean Energy to take one more action toward its objective of delivering 100% renewable energy generation to its consumers across San Mateo County as well as the City of Los Banos.
" While we continue to raise the amount of solar, wind, geothermal and also other clean generation, the storage capacity of this agreement is essential to guaranteeing we are obtaining closer to our supreme objective of giving 24/7 emission-free renewable power to our customers by 2025," said Jan Pepper, Chief Executive Officer of Peninsula Clean Energy.
Construction of the facility will certainly start in December 2021 as well as the project is expected to start providing energy to Peninsula Clean Energy by December 2023. Leeward will own and also operate the facility.
" Leeward is extremely thrilled to build on its partnership with Peninsula Clean Energy in giving affordable as well as dependable renewable energy to its consumers in addition to aiding the agency achieve its ambitious energy objectives," claimed Leeward's elderly VP of growth, Kathryn Arbeit. "This contract stands for one more important progression in the region's transition to dispatchable clean energy as well as also showcases Leeward's increasing solar as well as energy storage abilities and growing footprint in California's Antelope Valley."