RAI indicators California solar PPA for 100MW project

• 20-year take care of San Diego Community Power is for the Vikings Energy Farm

San Diego Community Power (SDCP) has authorized a PPA with an associate of RAI Energy International (RAI Energy), the Silicon Valley-based worldwide renewable energy development company.

The project found in Imperial County, California is an integrated 100MW photovoltaic or pv solar power project with approximately 150MW/600MWh of battery energy storage.

The Vikings Energy Farm will give SDCP with a 20-year supply of renewable resource, assistance satisfy peak summer season need, and also assistance grid reliability.

RAI Energy, through its affiliate Vikings Energy Farm LLC, will certainly create, layout, permit, construct, very own, and also operate the suggested project.

Construction on the Vikings Energy Farm is anticipated to start in the fall of 2022, with industrial operations anticipated to start in the summer season of 2023.

RAI Energy has a union work agreement in position and is anticipated to employ over of 250 union workers at peak building.

With this initial project, called the Vikings Energy Farm, SDCP provides on its assurance of purchasing local renewable resource projects that sustain economic advancement and regional jobs.

Under the terms of the power purchase arrangement, RAI Energy's Vikings Energy Farm project will certainly aid SDCP power the equivalent of 50,000 homes.

Chair of the SDCP board Joe Mosca said: "We are enjoyed be providing on our guarantee to purchase projects that deliver even more renewable energy to our consumers and also assistance regional jobs and also economic development.

" The Vikings Energy Farm project will offer clean energy when we need it most while sustaining our objective of acquiring 100% renewable energy to our consumers by 2035 or sooner."

RAI Energy president Mohammed Alrai stated: "Vikings Energy Farm represents the future of how we fight climate change and also rise renewable resource.

" By combining solar and also energy storage, RAI Energy will certainly be able to infuse renewable resource into the grid when it is most needed to aid guarantee dependability and also resiliency.

" We are proud to companion with San Diego Community Power on this turning point project as well as we stay committed to aiding power California with tidy, dependable solar power and also storage."