The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has signed multiple 20-year power purchase agreements with project developer Recurrent Energy for 60 megawatts (MW) of solar power to be developed in the southern portion of Sacramento County.
These are the first agreements to come out of the utility’s feed-in tariff program (FIT) introduced in January of this year.
SMUD’s standard tariff for qualifying renewable and combined heat and power generating facilities received applications that exceeded the program’s 100 MW capacity. All applications received offered a solar photovoltaic technology.
Recurrent Energy will develop 12 individual 5-MW projects at locations in Galt, CA and Elk Grove, CA. All the projects are expected to be installed and operational by fall 2012.
The FIT program is designed to remove barriers to interconnection with the utility by providing standard rates and contract conditions thus making it easier for SMUD and its power-generating customers to do business.
Arno Harris, CEO of Recurrent Energy, said the company has over 330 MW of distributed-scale projects in its contracted portfolio across North America and Europe.
The San Francisco-based company has a pipeline of over 1.3 gigawatts of projects in development across North America and Europe. For more information on Recurrent Energy and distributed solar power, please visit .
SMUD is the nation’s sixth largest publicly owned utility an an industry leader in energy efficiency and renewable power programs.
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