[CPEO-BIF] PSEG buys solar brownfield in Pittsburg, California

[Lenny Siegel]

News Release
PSEG Solar Source
August 25, 2015

PSEG Solar Source Adds Brownfield Facility With Acquisition of 25.4-MW California Solar Farm


NEWARK, N.J. -- PSEG Solar Source today announced that it has acquired the Columbia Solar Project from Hanergy America Solar Solutions. The facility, built on a remediated brownfield, is located 40 miles northeast of San Francisco in Pittsburg, CA.

The 25.4 MW-dc facility, to be named PSEG Pittsburg Solar Energy Center, is scheduled to go into service in October 2015 after the testing and commissioning process is completed. It has a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas & Electric.

"We are particularly proud to be part of this project that has turned a brownfield site green," said Diana Drysdale, president of PSEG Solar Source. "We continue to look for opportunities to build our business across the nation by working with best-in-class partners like Hanergy."

Solar Source has 12 facilities in operation or development with total capacity of 148 MW-dc. 

The new facility has 83,000 solar panels on a 105-acre remediated parcel located in an historically industrial zone. The site underwent an extensive cleanup, led by site owner USS-POSCO Industries, over several years under the supervision of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

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Lenny Siegel
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