Phelan Pinon Hills Community Services District (PPHCSD) and SunPower celebrated the completion of a 1.16MWac solar power system that will generate clean, sustainable electricity to power the district operations as well as offset nearly 50% of the district’s total electric bill.
"While we could have installed smaller solar power systems at several individual facilities, we decided to install one large system at an underutilized five-acre site that will deliver savings at 43 facilities across our operations," said Don Bartz, general manager of PPHCSD. "With a single large system, we have been able to capture economies of scale, streamline development, and maximize our savings. We expect to save more than $13 million over the 30-year projected life of the high performance SunPower system."
SunPower designed and installed a complete solar technology solution at the PPHCSD site, including high efficiency SunPower® solar panels installed on the company's ground-mount sun-tracking system. SunPower will also provide operations and maintenance on the system.
PPHCSD is taking advantage of the Renewable Energy Self-Generation Bill Credit Transfer (RES-BCT) tariff program offered by the regional utility, Southern California Edison, to deliver savings on the power generated by the SunPower system. Under the program, the district receives credits on its electricity bill in exchange for electricity the new solar power system exports to the utility grid. PPHCSD owns the renewable energy credits associated with the system.