EDISON AGREEMENT SHINES LIGHT ON SOLAR POWER.Byline: - Daily News Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. announced a 20-year agreement Wednesday that could result in the construction of a 4,500-acre solar generating station in Victorville, company officials said. Under the agreement, which is subject to approval by the California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [1] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, , Stirling Energy Systems Stirling Engine Systems is a United States company which develops equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems. In California's Mojave Desert, already home to 354 megawatts of SEGS solar thermal facilities, Stirling Energy would first build a test facility using 40 ``Stirling dishes'' - each 37 feet in diameter - then build a 20,000-dish array in Victorville over four years. The solar power station would be the largest in the world, and generate more solar power than the rest of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. combined, officials said. ``At a time of rising fossil-fuel costs and increased concern about greenhouse-gas emissions, the Stirling project would provide enough clean power to serve 278,000 homes for an entire year,'' Edison Chairman John Bryson said. Tests conducted by Southern California Edison and the Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New showed Stirling's system to be nearly twice as efficient as other solar generating technologies. |
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