8minute Solar Energy has executed a 15-year power-purchase agreement (PPA) with Clean Power Alliance (CPA).
The 400-megawatt Rexford 1 Solar & Storage Center in Tulare County, Calif., includes 180 megawatts of energy storage, which means it will reliably deliver renewable energy to the grid day or night or on cloudy days.
When it becomes operational in 2023, Rexford will provide enough energy for more than 370,000 Californians, making it not only the largest solar-plus-storage project for CPA, but also the largest for any community choice aggregator to date. The plant will offset about 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, or the equivalent of planting 12,000 trees every single day, for 10 years in a row.
“The recent blackouts and continued wildfires in California offer sobering proof of the urgent need for more renewable and reliable energy generation that both fortifies our grid and fights climate change — and large-scale solar paired with energy st
