Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
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Solar arrays at Desert Sunlight
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 Location of Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in California
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Riverside County, California |
| Coordinates | 33°49′17″N 115°23′38″W / 33.82139°N 115.39389°WCoordinates: 33°49′17″N 115°23′38″W / 33.82139°N 115.39389°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 2011 |
| Commission date | 2015 |
| Owner(s) | NextEra Energy Resources, GE Energy Financial Services, Sumitomo Group |
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| Type | Flat-panel PV |
| Site area | 16 square kilometres (6.2 sq mi) |
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| Nameplate capacity | 550 MWp |
| Capacity factor | 26.7% (2015) |
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Website firstsolar.com |
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The Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550 megawatt (MWAC) photovoltaic power station approximately six miles north of Desert Center, California, in the Mojave Desert. It uses approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride modules made by the US thin-film manufacturer First Solar. As of Fall 2015, the Solar Farm has the same 550 MW installed capacity as the Topaz Solar Farm in the Carrizo Plain region of Central California, making both of them tied for the second largest completed solar plants by installed capacity.
Project construction took place in two phases, both of which are supported by power purchase agreements.
Phase I has a capacity of 300 MW, which will be sold to Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Phase II has a capacity of 250 MW, which will be sold to Southern California Edison. The project was expected to involve more than 550 construction jobs in Riverside County, California. The project was built on over 6 square miles (16 km2) of creosote bush-dominated desert habitat near Desert Center next to Joshua Tree National Park. Construction began in September, 2011 and final completion was in January 2015.
The $1.46 billion in loans for the project are partially guaranteed by DOE and will be funded by a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs Lending Partners, which submitted the project under the Financial Institution Partnership Program (FIPP), and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as co-lead arranger.
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