San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commissioned the Solon Corporation, a subsidiary of Germany’s Solon SE, (SOO1.DE) to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California.
Solon will produce the photovoltaic modules at its manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona.
The power plant is expected to be completed in December 2009.
The pilot power plant project is part of a five-year program in which PG&E expects to develop 250 MW of solar photovoltaic power in California. PG&E plans to use photovoltaic power to deliver more than 1,000 gigawatt hours of electricity each year by 2015.
The program is one of the largest photovoltaic projects in the U.S.
It targets mid-sized power plants of 1 to 20 MW, mounted on the ground
or on rooftops.
In addition to the small and mid-sized power plants PG&E is building to own, the company also is busy contracting for the power produced by large-scale solar thermal power plants.
PG&E topped recent 2008 rankings by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) for being the most solar integrated utility.
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