Developer, owner, and operator of community solar projects, Dimension Energy (Dimension), has completed construction of the largest non-utility owned community solar project in the country, located in Inyokern, California.
Dimension’s partners include Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, National Bank of Canada, Comerica, and NT Solar.
The project will produce 44 MW of clean energy for residential and commercial customers in Southern California Edison’s service territory. Customers include over 2,000 households, the Redwood Family Care Network, Long Beach and Corona municipal facilities, and commercial offtakers including AT&T and Crown Castle.
The project will generate $18 million in energy savings for its subscribers, which include renters who will have access to solar energy for the first time. It will also deliver enough clean energy to eliminate 21,667 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, which is the equivalent of more than 4,700 cars.
“We turned a struggling utility scale site into the largest community solar project in the country despite tremendous policy hurdles in the state,” said Dimension co-founder, Sam Younes, in a statement.
The company hopes to see more community solar projects replace polluting peaker plants in historically impacted communities in the future.
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