Peninsula Clean Energy buys new 3-MW solar project for disadvantaged customers
- Peninsula Clean Energy as well as Renewable America are announcing a new solar project that will provide emission-free power to disadvantaged consumers in San Mateo County and the City of Los Banos.
The Dos Palos Clean Power project will generate 3 MWAC of solar energy as part of Peninsula Clean Energy's Green Access Program, which is offering more than 1,000 income-qualified customers in San Mateo County and also the City of Los Banos with a 20% cost savings on their electric bills.
" This project checks several important boxes for us, consisting of helping us obtain closer to our main goal of offering all-renewable power to all of our customers at almost all hrs of the day and also evening," stated Peninsula Clean Energy CEO Jan Pepper. "Sourcing this carbon-free power for our Los Banos customers from their house county additionally even more shows how we are aiding produce and also supply clean and inexpensive power past the shoreline and also into the heart of our state."
Renewable America is establishing, financing, building and maintaining procedure of the Dos Palos project in Merced County, which is expected to be on the internet in August 2023.
" Our group is enjoyed companion with Peninsula Clean Energy to offer locally sourced solar electricity to their members," Renewable America CEO Ardi Arian claimed. "This project is special due to the fact that it will straight profit the locals of the bordering community in Los Banos through regional financial investment as well as job creation. Peninsula Clean Energy is once more showing management on just how community option gathering firms can clean energy budget friendly and accessible for even more Californians."
Peninsula Clean Energy's Green Access program becomes part of a statewide initiative from the California Public Utilities Commission to assist low-income residents with their energy bills in communities that experience higher degrees of environmental pollution.