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SMUD opens 1.2-MW Solar PV ‘customer-driven’ array

15 July 2008 | Fab and Facilities: News From Around The Web | Source: Reuters

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California on Monday electrified a 1.2-megawatt photovoltaic solar panel array that it says is the first U.S. project to offer customers without solar panels the chance to sell renewable power back to their power company.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District Executive Director John DiStasio said the project is the first to be built based on a voluntary "green pricing" effort, in which customers bet that in the long run the price of electricity rises while their charges remain flat.

SMUD will purchase power in a 20-year agreement from enXco, the builder and owner of a seven-acre, 17,172-panel solar array in Wilton, southeast of Sacramento. The company is a unit of EdF Energies Nouvelles Co of France, which is half-owned by EdF of France. 

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