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Date Announced: 29 Dec 2010
$3 billion project switches from thermal solar to PV technologyl; is expected eventually to meet the annual demand of up to 350,000 California households.
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--K Road Power Holdings, LLC ( “K Road”) announced today its wholly owned subsidiary K Road Sun, LLC has acquired the Calico Solar Project from Tessera Solar North America, Inc.
Calico Solar, located near Barstow, CA is one of California’s few fully permitted utility scale solar power facilities. Calico Solar has an interconnection agreement to supply 850 MW, enjoys strong support from the State of California and is well positioned to contract financeable power purchase agreements with California’s leading retail power suppliers. Total capital investment is estimated to be $3.0 billion. Once in operation the Calico Solar project will provide clean, reliable, California based renewable energy to meet the annual demand of up to 350,000 California households.
“While 100 MW of Phase 2 will be reserved for new generations of SES SunCatcher technology, K Road’s Calico Solar Project will convert the first 750 MWs to widely tested and accepted photovoltaic technology, insuring the project’s immediate financeability, further reducing environmental impacts, and providing the lowest cost solar production to help meet California’s renewable portfolio standard,” said William Kriegel, K Road’s founder and Chief Executive Officer.
K Road Sun is exclusively dedicated to developing, owning, and operating utility scale solar power facilities in the western United States. The K Road team has a unique, proven track record in power generation with decades of experience developing, constructing and operating generation plants worldwide, including solar, wind, biomass and hydro facilities. K Road believes that in order to be the lowest cost, most environmentally friendly source of sustainable energy, companies must be indifferent to technology and source production capacity from the most efficient, robust and economically viable sources.
K Road’s Managing Partner, Gerrit Nicholas added, “We are excited to move the Calico Solar Project into a financeable position, and we look forward to developing, constructing, and operating one of the world’s largest solar projects. In addition, we are pleased to play a role in creating economic opportunity for the Barstow community and helping society wean itself off of carbon based power supplies through environmentally advanced technology.”
Credit Suisse acted as financial advisors and Dewey LeBoeuf as legal advisors to K Road.
Source: K Road Power
E-mail: antonn@kroadpower.com
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