It will be located on evraz rocky mountain steel property in pueblo making it one of the largest on site solar facilities dedicated to a single customer in the country.
Rocky mountain power solar farm.
Lightsource bp will finance build own and operate the bighorn solar project and sell all the electricity it generates to xcel energy under a long term power purchase agreement.
Through our energy vision 2020 initiative we re significantly expanding the amount of wind power serving customers by 2020 and repowering our existing wind resources.
Rocky mountain power a division of pacificorp is planning a 650 kw array of solar panels to work in concert with a 1 mw 5 mwh battery storage system.
If approved by the utah public service commission the company says the solar project should be online in june 2016.
The 20 megawatt solar farm will be located in holden utah in millard county.
Renewable generation from company owned and contracted solar and wind facilities represent an important and growing segment of our resource mix.
The new solar farm will be built near enterprise utah and will power facebook s eagle mountain data center in utah.
The utility company estimates costs could balloon to 78 million as.
The utility will own the system and provide the energy to facebook.
If you move to another site in utah served by rocky mountain.
The projects are being paid for in full by facebook with power purchase agreements ppas which fund renewable generation.
Rocky mountain power officials said a big factor in trying to produce more solar power is the cost of the technology has dropped in recent years.
The projects will help offset the energy used by facebook s eagle mountain data.
Rocky mountain power is building three new solar energy projects in utah funded by facebook.
It will take about two years for the process.
Rocky mountain power will soon be offering its customers the chance to use solar energy even if they don t plan to install panels on the roof.
Keep your subscription for up to 20 years.
But a review by rocky mountain power found non solar customers have to kick in 6 5 million each year to support rooftop solar.
The new cove mountain 2 solar farm is being built by first solar using its new us made series 6 solar panels for rocky mountain power.