rPlus Energies is creating Utah's largest solar + storage space project

• Renewable energy programmer rPlus Energies has actually signed a long-lasting power purchase contract (PPA) with electrical utility PacifiCorp for a 400-MWAC solar project incorporated with a 200-MW battery energy storage space system (BESS) in Emery County, Utah. The Green River Energy Center is presently the largest prepared solar + storage center in Utah and also among the largest centers in the PacifiCorp system.

" Emery County, Utah, has actually been an energy community for a long time," stated Luigi Resta, president and chief executive officer of rPlus Energies. "With the Huntington and Hunter plants as a result of get to end of beneficial life over the following 10 to two decades, the fabric of the county is rapidly transforming. The Green River Energy Center continues the legacy of introducing adjustment and also exploration in the region."

rPlus Energies has selected Sundt Construction to provide the engineering, procurement as well as construction solutions for the solar + storage space centers. Building will certainly commence in very early 2023 and also is expected to create over 400 jobs in addition to multiple permanent positions.

Along with enhanced job opportunities and using construction-related firms in the surrounding area, Green River Energy Center represents a roughly $750 million financial investment in Utah's economy and will certainly offer substantial tax benefits to Emery County.

" We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with valued customers like rPlus Energies in assisting to provide services to fulfill renewable energy goals," said Craig Eller, vice head of state of business policy advancement for Rocky Mountain Power. "We look forward to our continued collaboration and also future partnership."

The Green River project contributes to rPlus Energies' recent project advancement achievements in Utah, including the 80-MW Graphite Solar project in Carbon County, which attained industrial procedure in June, and the 200 MW Appaloosa Solar 1 project in Iron County, which commenced construction earlier in 2022. Both projects hold long-lasting PPAs with PacifiCorp under Rocky Mountain Power's Schedule 34 green energy tariff, which lets large customers acquisition renewable resource produced on their behalf.

The addition of the Green River PPA brings rPlus Energies' complete acquired renewable generation capacity to over 1.2 GW, all carried out because the organization formed in late 2018.