EDFR secures PPA for 300 MW of solar plus storage in California

EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply electricity from a 300-MW solar project combined with 600 MWh of storage to California power provider Clean Power Alliance (CPA).

The contract was approved at the September meeting of CPA’s board of directors, it was announced on Thursday.

The project, called Desert Quartzite and located in Riverside County, California, on land administered by the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is scheduled to start delivering power to CPA in February 2024.

“Our Board has identified solar-plus-storage as being key to our continued growth and a means to further improve reliability for our millions of customers,” said Clean Power Alliance executive director Ted Bardacke.

According to the announcement, at full capacity, the facility is expected to produce enough electricity to cover the consumption of over 163,000 California homes.

The 300 MW solar plus 150 MW/600 MWh of lithium-ion battery storage Desert Quartzite scheme is one of the shortlisted projects from CPA’s 2020 Clean Energy request for offers (RFO), it is specified in the CPA meetings agenda information.

The developer, EDFR, is part of the renewables business of France’s EDF Group.

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