The Palen Solar Power Project facility, which will house two power plants each generating 250MW of nominal capacity, will provide enough electricity to power up to 150,000 homes and remove approximately one-half megaton of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Through the project construction, Solar Millennium expects to create nearly 1,100 direct jobs in Southern California, thousands of indirect supply chain jobs in related industries throughout the US, and 130 long-term operational and maintenance jobs at the facility itself once it is completed.
Solar Millennium has also applied to the US Bureau of Land Management for a 5,200 acre Right-of Way (ROW) for the Palen Solar Power Project, which will add to Solar Trust of America’s California portfolio of approved solar thermal projects totaling 1,500MW.
Solar Trust of America chairman and CEO and Solar Millennium executive chairman Uwe Schmidt said that the CEC’s decision is one of the final significant steps to allowing the Palen project to deliver 500MW of clean solar thermal power to Californians.
