Sempra Gets $337 Million Guarantee for Arizona Solar Project
Sempra Energy (SRE), California’s third- largest utility, received a $337 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a 150-megawatt solar project in Arizona.
Sempra will sell electricity from the Mesquite Solar 1 plant to California’s largest utility, PG&E Corp., under a 20- year contract, the Energy Department said today in an e-mailed statement.
The Mesquite project in Maricopa County, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Phoenix, will use 800,000 multicrystalline silicon solar panels from Wuxi, China-based Suntech Power Holdings Co., San Diego-based Sempra said in February.
Lawmakers in Washington are scrutinizing the Energy Department’s program in the wake of Solyndra LLC’s Sept. 6 bankruptcy filing. The Fremont, California-based solar-panel maker received a $527 million loan guarantee.
Southern California Edison Co. is the state’s second- largest utility.
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