The power project will be built in three, 50MW phases at separate sites on fallowed land in the Imperial Valley in the US state of California.
The 150MW facility, which will use solar photovoltaic panels with single-axis tracking, is expected to generate about 361GWh per year on average over the length of the contract.
SDG&E senior vice president of power supply James Avery said this solar project will be transmitted across the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) transmission network to SDG&E and will get delivered to SDG&E’s customers and the southern California region using the capacity of the Sunrise Powerlink and the help of the IID.
Separately, the company has also signed a one-year contract with Silicon Valley Power for 40MW of geothermal power.
Both contracts require approval by the California Public Utilities Commission.
