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Article: Abengoa Solar Signs Contract with PG&E to Supply Solar Power in California.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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Abengoa Solar announces the signing of a power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to supply the electricity generated by the new solar plant "Mojave Solar." The project will generate 250 megawatts (MW) of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and is to be located in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, between Barstow and Kramer Junction, approximately nine miles northwest of Hinkley, and 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The project is expected to bring 1,200 green construction jobs and, when completed, approximately 80 permanent jobs to this desert area.
Once it starts operating in 2013, it will generate nearly as much electricity as ...