City of San Diego Unveils 1-Megawatt Solar System at City's Alvarado Water Treatment Plant.San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Nation's First City to Deploy Solar With No Upfront Cost Water Plant is First Site in City's Plan to Produce 5 Megawatts of Solar Power SAN DIEGO -- City of San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders Jerry Sanders may refer to:
The Alvarado photovoltaic The generation of voltage by a material that is exposed to light in the visible and invisible ranges. See photoelectric and photovoltaic cell. installation was built under a power purchase agreement (PPA PPA 1. Palpation, Percussion & Ausculation 2. Pittsburgh pneumonia agent 3. Postpartum amenorrhea 4. Price per accession 5. Pure pulmonary atresia ) with SunEdison, North America's largest solar services company. Under the agreement, San Diego citizens benefit from clean, solar energy solar energy, any form of energy radiated by the sun, including light, radio waves, and X rays, although the term usually refers to the visible light of the sun. with no upfront cost, thereby avoiding an estimated $6.5 million in capital installation. SunEdison built, owns and will maintain the solar system. SunEdison will sell the solar energy to the City's Water Department at costs lower than SDG&E rates. The 1-megawatt water treatment plant site is the first of a multi-year solar deployment at City facilities that will eventually produce 5 megawatts of solar power and will become the largest municipal system in California, surpassing Google's planned 1.6 megawatt solar system in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . "Installing 5 megawatts of solar panels on City-operated property is a major step toward meeting the City's target of providing 50 megawatts of renewable fueled power generation by 2013," said Mayor Sanders. The Alvarado installation has 6,128 photovoltaic solar panels located atop the concrete roofs of all three water storage reservoirs, a total area covering approximately 4.33 acres. Each panel measures 4.5x3.5-feet. The solar power system, with the capacity to produce 1.602 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year, will have a measurable environmental impact and will reduce annual carbon emissions equal to 219 cars driving 12,500 miles annually. As part of a planned 5 megawatt solar system deployment, the Alvarado solar array marks another step forward in providing clean, renewable energy for San Diego, which has been recognized as the nation's #1 "Green Power Partnership" city by the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and since 2006. The City and SunEdison are investigating an additional 4 megawatts of solar projects at other San Diego sites including the Otay Water Treatment Facility and the Black Mountain Reservoir. Mayor Sanders added, "When the 5 megawatts of solar systems are fully installed, they will support California's goal of increasing the percentage of renewable energy in the state's electricity mix to 20 percent by 2017," he said. "We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to be able to work with SunEdison to make predictably-priced clean solar energy available to the city." "SunEdison is extremely proud to work closely with San Diego in creating a solar array that will generate clean solar energy for the community. This is a milestone for San Diego and for solar in California," noted Jigar Shah, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SunEdison, North America's first and largest solar services provider. "San Diego is a leader in pursuing clean solar energy and renewable energy goals. Through the Power Purchase Agreement solar services model, San Diego is able to achieve predictable pricing in solar energy costs and do so without incurring a capital outlay capital outlay See capital expenditure. . SunEdison is pleased to have built, to own and to maintain such an important solar power array." FOR MORE INFORMATION: * California's Renewable Energy Program, www.energy.ca.gov/renewables * San Diego's #1 Green Power Ranking by the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. , www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/top25.htm, and select "Top 10 Local Government" ABOUT CITY OF SAN DIEGO RENEWABLE ENERGY * San Diego currently produces 18 megawatts of renewable energy annually to help power City facilities. City photovoltaics including the Alvarado plant currently generate approximately 1.8 million kilowatt-hours annually. The remainder comes from methane gas generated by the City's Miramar Landfill that powers wastewater treatment plants, and a 1.35 megawatt hydro generator. For more information, visit www.sandiego.gov. ABOUT SUNEDISON * SunEdison, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , is North America's leading solar energy service provider. SunEdison provides solar-generated energy at or below current retail utility rates to a broad and diverse client base of commercial, municipal and utility customers. For more information about SunEdison, see www.sunedison.com/. The company headquarters are located in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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