SCE is doing its part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing its customers with energy from renewable resources.  Currently, nearly 16 percent of our energy mix comes from wind, solar, biomass, small hydropower and geothermal sources.

We're working toward a goal of having at least 20 percent of our energy delivered from renewable sources; in the last year, SCE signed more than a dozen agreements with renewable-energy developers.

One agreement, with Australia-based Alta Windpower Development LLC, secures 1,500 megawatts or more of power generated by new projects to be built in the Tehachapi area of California. The contract more than doubles SCE’s wind energy portfolio, and envisions more than 50 square miles of wind parks. That’s triple the size of any existing wind farm in the United States.  Oak Creek Energy Systems Inc. of Mojave, Calif., is a partner with Allco in the development, construction, and operations of the projects.

“I applaud Southern California Edison for this historic wind-energy contract,” said Michael R. Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission.  “This contract will help California move closer to its goal of generating 20 percent or more of our electricity with clean, renewable energy.  Edison’s achievement further highlights the importance of the work state policymakers and utilities are doing to expand the state’s transmission grid so projects such as these can become a reality.”

SCE also signed a new contract with Chateau Energy to purchase 15 megawatts of power from a biomass facility in the Mesquite Lake area of Imperial County.

Another wind agreement allows Southern California Sunbelt Developers to increase capacity to 20 megawatts at an existing site in the Coachella Valley by upgrading technology to capture wind energy more efficiently.

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August 18, 2008
Southern California Edison Signs Contract for More Than 900 Megawatts of Wind Energy

July 16, 2008
Southern California Edison Begins Construction of World’s Largest Solar Panel Installation Project

June 3, 2008
Southern California Edison Contracts with eSolar for Solar Power Tower

May 16, 2008
Southern California Edison Proposes State’s First Major ‘Early Action’ Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan

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