RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA-First Solar, Inc., of Arizona has entered into an agreement to construct a 250 megawatt (MWAC) solar power plant in Riverside County, CA, for a subsidiary of Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
The McCoy Solar Energy Project will be located on approximately 2,300 acres of mostly public land provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approximately 13 miles northwest of Blythe. Under the agreement, First Solar will provide engineering, procurement and construction services, using First Solar's cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic thin-film modules.
The project is located near the 550MWAC Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, jointly owned by a subsidiary of NextEra, GE Energy Financial Services, and Sumitomo Corporation of America, currently under construction by First Solar. An affiliate of NextEra Energy Resources also previously purchased two projects built by First Solar in Canada.
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David Phillips
David Phillips is a Chicago-based freelance writer and consultant with more than 20 years experience in business and community news. He also has extensive reporting experience in the food manufacturing industry for national trade publications.
