Solar Frontier sells 15-MW PV project in California

The Americas arm of Japanese firm Solar Frontier KK said on Monday it has sold the 15-MW Morelos del Sol photovoltaic (PV) project in California to Southern Power and Ted Turner’s Turner Renewable Energy.

Solar Frontier Americas Development LLC has already started construction work on the facility and expects to complete it in late November. DEPCOM Power is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project. It will also provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services once the plant is completed.

The Morelos del Sol facility will consist of about 111,744 CIS modules mounted on single-axis trackers at a site in Kern County. Upon completion, the solar park will be selling its generated electricity and associated renewable energy credits (RECs) to Pacific Gas & Electric Company under a 20-year off-take contract.

Morelos del Sol is part of Solar Frontier’s 280-MW US solar project development pipeline. The latter is wholly-owned by Japanese energy company Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, while Southern Power is a subsidiary of US-based Southern Company (NYSE:SO).

The partnership between Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy now has over 320 MW of solar power capacity.

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