San Diego Community Power was formed in the fall of 2019 and launched electricity supply services in April of 2021 for municipal customers in the five-member cities of Chula Vista, Encinitas, Imperial Beach, La Mesa, and San Diego. The program provides local control and consumer choice regarding energy decisions on a large scale for the first time in the region’s history.
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“We are thrilled to be delivering on our promise to invest in projects that deliver more renewable energy to our customers and support regional jobs and economic development,” said Joe Mosca, Encinitas Councilmember and Chair of the San Diego Community Power Board. “The Vikings Energy Farm project will provide clean energy when we need it most while supporting our goal of procuring 100 percent renewable energy to our customers by 2035 or sooner.”
San Diego Community Power (SDCP) has signed a PPA with an affiliate of RAI Energy International (RAI Energy), the Silicon Valley-based global renewable energy development company.
The project located in Imperial County, California is an integrated 100MW photovoltaic solar energy project with up to 150MW/600MWh of battery energy storage.
The Vikings Energy Farm will provide SDCP with a 20-year supply of renewable energy, help meet peak summer demand, and support grid reliability.
RAI Energy, through its affiliate Vikings Energy Farm LLC, will develop, design, permit, construct, own, and operate the proposed project.
Construction on the Vikings Energy Farm is expected to begin in the fall of 2022, with commercial operations expected to begin in the summer of 2023.
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Rendering of Integrated 100 MW Solar Energy and 150 MW Storage Project. (RAI Energy International)
(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) May 4, 2021 – San Diego Community Power (SDCP), the not-for-profit community choice energy program serving five cities in the San Diego region, entered into a power purchase agreement with an affiliate of RAI Energy International, Inc. (RAI Energy), the Silicon Valley-based global renewable energy development company. The project is located in Imperial County, California and is an integrated 100 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar energy project and up to 150 MW/600 MWh of battery energy storage that will provide San Diego Community Power with a 20-year supply of renewable energy, help meet peak summer demand, and support grid reliability. With this first project, called the Vikings Energy Farm, SDCP delivers on its promise of investing in regional renewable energy projects that support economic development and local jobs.
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A new committee tasked with offering city officials advice on equity issues will have eight community members with widely varying backgrounds and job experiences.
“This is an impressive group of people,” Mayor Catherine Blakespear said of the 16 applicants.
She selected eight of them, saying that number, plus herself and Councilwoman Kellie Shay Hinze, will make up a group of 10 people a size she called both workable and meaningful.
As the city’s mayor, Blakespear has the authority to select the candidates and the council then votes on whether to approve her recommendations. Last week’s vote to approve was unanimous, though councilmen Tony Kranz and Joe Mosca said they wished Blakespear had included applicant Dan Vaughn, the director of St. Andrew’s Interfaith Shelter program and the president of the Olivenhain Town Council.
Colorado River water use not price-moderated, despite drought
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REGION San Diego area water prices and regulations don’t relate directly to the growing scarcity of water in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin, from which the region imports about half its supply.
“There is no plan or expectation that the (contingency plan) will be implemented this year,” the Water Authority’s Jeff Stephenson said Monday.
“Generally speaking, price isn’t used as a mechanism to ration water in California, nor to identify its scarcity, because of the system of water rights that we’ve adopted over time,” said Kurt Schwabe, chair of environmental economics and policy at UC Riverside.