Dive Summary:
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) will receive renewable electricity from two newly completed projects in Arizona and California.
- Arizona's Mesquite Solar 1 is selling what could amount to 700 MW of solar power to PG&E under a 20-year agreement; the installation is one of the country's largest solar power projects.
- The second renewable project is the Shiloh IV Wind Project, a wind farm in California that will produce 102.5 MW of energy and sell it to PG&E under a 25-year agreement.
From the article:
"Shiloh IV demonstrates our ongoing commitment to provide PG&E’s customers with sustainable green power today and as California marches forward into a clean energy future,” comments Fong Wan, the utility’s senior vice president of energy procurement. “PG&E delivers some of the cleanest energy in the nation to our customers, more than half of which comes from sources which are carbon free. We look forward to continuing to work with EDF Renewable Energy on vital renewable energy projects that will help push California closer to its 33 percent renewable energy goal.” ...