The Metropolis of Fresno Division of Public Utilities (DPU) has performed a ground-breaking ceremony for the event of its on-site photo voltaic vitality and battery storage portfolio, which is now taking form at three energy-intensive websites: the Fresno-Clovis Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility, the Northeast Floor Water Remedy Facility, and the Southeast Floor Water Remedy Facility.
DPU’s 27 MW DC behind-the-meter portfolio is being developed in partnership with ForeFront Energy, a developer of photo voltaic vitality and battery storage tasks within the U.S. and Mexico, and the tasks shall be constructed by native union labor from the IBEW Native 100.
The tasks are a part of the Metropolis of Fresno’s complete plan to decrease its vitality prices, bolster environmental resiliency and scale back greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions. At a time of rising electrical energy prices, these DPU tasks will save town an anticipated $100 million in taxpayer {dollars} by 2045. Growth of town’s photo voltaic and storage portfolio has created 192 native jobs, with the three DPU websites contributing 120 of those native jobs.
“We’re happy to have helped the Metropolis of Fresno with this momentous enlargement of its renewable vitality belongings,” says Rachel McLaughlin, senior vice chairman of gross sales and advertising at ForeFront Energy. “It is sensible that with over 300 days of sunshine per 12 months, town is harnessing one among its most plentiful sources to guard pocket books, the air, and the local weather unexpectedly.”
Below the phrases of a PPA with town, ForeFront Energy will develop, personal and keep the photo voltaic and storage portfolio.
Every DPU web site will function ground-mounted photo voltaic vitality arrays and single-axis trackers, with a mixed output of 47 million kWh yearly. When accomplished, the Fresno-Clovis Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility web site is anticipated to be one of many largest behind-the-meter photo voltaic vitality and battery storage tasks in California, with 17 MW DC of photo voltaic and a couple of.3 MW DC of battery storage. Furthermore, the Metropolis of Fresno will host the most important multi-campus photo voltaic vitality and battery storage portfolio on the planet, at 34 MW DC.
The DPU tasks will complement town’s accomplished behind-the-meter photo voltaic vitality belongings on the Fresno Conference Heart, the Freeway Metropolis Science Heart, the Police Coaching Facility and Fresno Yosemite Worldwide Airport.
