The Catalina Solar Project is a 143.2 megawatt (MW)

photovoltaic power station A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power. They are different from most building- ...

located near

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, Kern County, California, owned by enXco, an

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Company. It covers area of . Construction began in May, 2012 and was fully completed in August, 2013. It use thin-film PV panels bought from Solar Frontier ( CIGS type) and First Solar ( CdTe type). Phase 1 had a nameplate capacity of 60 MW and was connected to the grid in December, 2012. enXco has signed a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) for the production from the station."Project Detail - Catalina Solar Project"
. EDF Renewable Energy. 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2013. That clean electricity could offset roughly 74,000 tons of

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each year.

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