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Canadian Solar Farm to Help Light Up Silicon Valley, Monterey

  • New solar-storage project in California to start up in 2021
  • Slate solar farm to feature 180 megawatt-hours of storage

Photographer: Joshua Lott/Bloomberg

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Canadian Solar Inc. agreed to sell output from a solar-storage project in California to municipalities in Silicon Valley and the Monterey area.

Silicon Valley Clean Energy and Monterey Bay Community Power, which buy renewable energy on behalf of homes and businesses, signed 15-year contracts with the 150-megawatt project being developed by Canadian Solar’s unit Recurrent Energy, according to an emailed statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.