Avangrid has achieved industrial operation of the 150-MW Lund Hill photo voltaic farm in Klickitat County, Washington — now the state’s largest photo voltaic PV plant. The power will provide Puget Sound Vitality’s Inexperienced Direct program.
“Lund Hill represents a significant milestone for us at Avangrid and is proof of our dedication with accelerating the vitality transition within the U.S.,” mentioned Pedro Azagra, Avangrid CEO. “We’re happy to work with Puget Sound Vitality to assist it meet its formidable targets to scale back emissions and supply clear, dependable energy to its prospects.”
Avangrid’s facility will provide the photo voltaic for PSE’s second spherical providing of its Inexperienced Direct program, for which greater than 40 prospects have already signed up, amongst them six Washington state authorities businesses, together with the Departments of Well being, Ecology, and Transportation (WSDOT), amongst others. The initiative permits members the flexibility to buy 100% of their vitality from devoted, native, renewable vitality sources.
Lund Hill is positioned on roughly 1,800 acres, a mixture of land leased from personal landowners and the Washington Division of Pure Sources, the state’s first solar energy land lease.
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