Nov 19 2010
Sempra Generation, a group company of Sempra Energy, declared that it has obtained the construction sanction from the Kern County Board of Supervisors to build a new PV solar plant for Rosamond Solar in Antelope Valley, California.
The Rosamond Solar power production facility, to be located in the desert around 90 miles north of Los Angeles, is designed to produce around 200 MW of electric power to offer power supply to over 76,000 average homes per year. The company is planning to start the construction of the solar farm in 2012 and intends to complete it by 2013. During the construction, the project will generate over 300 temporary employment opportunities and eight new permanent job opportunities. The new solar facility to be constructed over a private land, which was formerly utilized for agriculture will incorporate solar PV technology and does not need water to produce power.
Jeffrey W. Martin, Sempra Generation’s President and Chief Executive Officer, said that the completion of facility will allow Rosamond Solar to increase the solar power supply of California State and inch it nearer to its clean energy goals, while allowing the creation of more jobs locally. He expressed his intentions to work in close collaboration with the Rosamond community and the Kern County officials to tap the immense solar resources of California.
The Rosamond solar facility is one among the four utility scale power projects undertaken by the company. The company is anticipated to finish building the biggest PV solar facility in Boulder City, Nevada at the end of this year, and has recently declared its plans to begin the first phase of a new 600 MW solar photovoltaic development outside Phoenix during 2011.
Source: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en