Rocky Mountain Power Solar Farm

Rocky mountain power is building three new solar energy projects in utah funded by facebook.

Rocky mountain power solar farm.

Rocky mountain power a division of pacificorp is planning a 650 kw array of solar panels to work in concert with a 1 mw 5 mwh battery storage system. If you move to another site in utah served by rocky mountain. The utility company announced monday that it s contracted with a company called juwi to build a solar farm. But a review by rocky mountain power found non solar customers have to kick in 6 5 million each year to support rooftop solar.

If approved by the utah public service commission the company says the solar project should be online in june 2016. Get your power from a 20 megawatt solar plant in millard county utah subscribe in blocks of 200 kilowatt hours kwh to offset your usage on your bill or choose full coverage where all of your kwh is billed on the subscriber solar rate. The new solar farm will be built near enterprise utah and will power facebook s eagle mountain data center in utah. Keep your subscription for up to 20 years.

The utility will own the system and provide the energy to facebook. Rocky mountain power officials said a big factor in trying to produce more solar power is the cost of the technology has dropped in recent years. With additional repair crews for partner utilities from iowa and nevada rocky mountain power continued the non stop work to restore service to customers after hurricane strength winds in excess of 110 mph in some areas ripped through areas of utah wyoming and idaho beginning early tuesday sept. Rocky mountain power will soon be offering its customers the chance to use solar energy even if they don t plan to install panels on the roof.

The 20 megawatt solar farm will be located in holden utah in millard county. The projects will help offset the energy used by facebook s eagle mountain data. Renewable generation from company owned and contracted solar and wind facilities represent an important and growing segment of our resource mix. It will take about two years for the process.

The new cove mountain 2 solar farm is being built by first solar using its new us made series 6 solar panels for rocky mountain power. The projects are being paid for in full by facebook with power purchase agreements ppas which fund renewable generation. It will be located on evraz rocky mountain steel property in pueblo making it one of the largest on site solar facilities dedicated to a single customer in the country.