US Army solar project begins on Los Alamitos joint base

A 100-acre solar project that will bolster the power grid in Southern California and provide two weeks of emergency power for Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, broke ground May 19.

The 26-megawatt solar project will be constructed, owned and operated by Bright Canyon Energy on a 30-year land lease in a public-private partnership between the energy company, the Department of the Army’s Office of Energy Initiatives, and the California National Guard.

“Energy resilience is something that we as a state have been actively pursuing, just like the Department of the Army,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael Leeney, commander of the California Army National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division. “This project only reinforces the commitment that we have to move forward.”

The project is being built with the installation’s emergency response mission in mind and includes a 20 MW / 40 megawatt-hour battery, 3 MW backup generators and a microgrid control system that allows the project to disconnect from the traditional power grid and operate autonomously.

Click here to read the full article
Source: U.S. Army

—

If you have any questions or thoughts about the topic, feel free to contact us here or leave a comment below.

/0 Comments/by
You might also like
High school students have spent months building a solar power vehicle from the ground up to compete in the annual Solar Car Challenge.High school students designed and built solar-powered cars for 1,400 mile race to California
South L.A. Ecolab is a $35M initiative that aims to transform a 4-square-mile area of South LA into a model of sustainabilityFirst of 140 solar roofs gets installed in South L.A.
When completed, the pergola at All Saints Church in Riverside, CA, will resemble a patio cover that will collect power from the sun's rays.Church in Riverside, CA creates path to sustainability through solar
Sunreef shared a new sustainability strategy and is now integrating recycled PET bottles into its solar electric yacht production process.Sustainability at sea: Sunreef is integrating recycled plastic bottles into solar electric yachts
Feed-in Tariff program has 155 projects with a combined capacity of 105.2MW in service as of Dec. 2023, according to the program dashboard.Los Angeles public-private partnership aims to advance industrial solar
Google's Mountain View, CA offices feature curved roofs and textured solar panels that optimize the hours they can generate electricity.At Google’s new campus, ‘dragonscale’ solar panels capture sunlight from all different angles
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *