Dive Summary;
- Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, a unit of the California-based Sempra Energy, has hired the London-based AMEC, an engineering and project management company, to design and build out Sempra’s landmark Copper Mountain Solar 3 solar farm near Las Vegas, Nevada.
- The project will be one of the largest photovoltaic (PV) solar plants in the U.S., situated on 1,400 acres of land and generating 250-megawatts (MW) of solar power.
- Once it is completed in 2015, Sempra will sell the power to utilities in the Southwest U.S., PV-Tech reports.
From the article:
"As a top solar developer in the US, we look forward to adding another 250-MW of clean, emission-free energy to our renewable energy portfolio,” says Kevin C. Sagara, vice president of renewables for Sempra U.S. Gas & Power.
