Coordinates: 35°15′25″N 118°00′47″W / 35.257°N 118.013°W / 35.257; -118.013

Beacon Solar Project

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Beacon Solar Project
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CountryUnited States
LocationKern County, California
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StatusOperational
Construction began2014
Commission date2017
OwnerLos Angeles Department of Water and Power
Solar farm
TypeFlat-panel PV
Site area2,500 acres (1,000 ha)
Power purchase agreement< $0.085 / kWh for 25 years[1]
Power generation
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Nameplate capacity250 MWac (291 MWac)
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The Beacon Solar Project is a photovoltaic power station in the northwestern Mojave Desert, near California City in eastern Kern County, California.[2][3] Split into five phases, the combined Beacon solar facilities generate 250 MW of renewable energy for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).[3] The five phases of the project, fully completed in December 2017, include a total of 903,434 individual solar photovoltaic modules, mounted onto Nextpower single-axis tracking systems.[4]

The Beacon Solar Project was originally proposed by NextEra Energy using parabolic trough mirrors as solar energy collectors for a solar thermal electric energy generation project. The solar thermal electric powerplant technology configuration raised significant concerns during the CEQA environmental permitting process. [5] Among the many environmental concerns, the natural gas supply, the wastewater management and disposal, and the water supply during construction and during operation of the plant were concerns specific to the solar thermal technology. The project was reconfigured, simplified and rescoped to a photovoltaic technology, eliminating the solar thermal technology concerns, though significant other environmental concerns remained.[6]

LADWP acquired the entire project, including the land and the environmental permitting for the site in 2012 as photovoltaic technology, which gained economic advantages over solar thermal and other technologies as a result of rapidly decreasing costs of solar photovoltaic modules.[7] LADWP contracted Hecate Energy to develop three phases of the project, for 162 MW, and SunEdison, to develop the other two phases, for 88 MW.[8] SunEdison's stake in the project was later acquired by Capital Dynamics.[9] Hecate Energy's stake in the project was acquired by sPower[10] (Sustainable Power), and was completed by sPower, who was later acquired by AES.

In October 2018, LADWP commissioned the Beacon Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), with 10 MWh/20 MW of storage to stabilize the energy sent to the grid by the solar panels.[4]

Projects

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The Beacon Solar Project consists of 5 solar power station projects:

  • Beacon 1 — 56 MWac (56.5 MWdc) solar power station using photovoltaics, which began commercial operations in early 2017.[11][12]
  • Beacon 2 — 48 MWac (59.6 MWdc) solar power station using photovoltaics, commissioned in December 2017.[13][14][15]
  • Beacon 3 — 56 MWac (63.0 MWdc) solar power station using photovoltaics, which began commercial operations in early 2017.[16]
  • Beacon 4 — 50 MWac (63.9 MWdc) solar power station using photovoltaics, which began commercial operations in early 2017.[17]
  • Beacon 5 — 40 MWac (48.2 MWdc) solar power station using photovoltaics, commissioned in December 2017.[13][14]

Production

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Beacon 1 Generation, Annual

Beacon 2 Generation, Annual [18]

Beacon 3 Generation

Generation (MW·h) of Beacon 3 [19]
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2016 3,013 3,013
2017 6,373 7,630 12,961 6,373 16,330 49,667
Total 52,680
Generation (MW·h) of Beacon 4 [20]
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2016 4,962 4,962
2017 5,186 6,525 11,301 5,186 14,017 42,215
Total 47,177

Beacon 5 Generation, Annual [21]

See also

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References

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  12. ^ sPower lines up financing for 183 MW of Beacon Solar projects in California, Transmission Hub, Barry Cassell, November 15, 2016
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  15. ^ [https://solarindustrymag.com/capital-dynamics-sells-majority-stake-of-beacon-solar-portfolio Beacon Solar Portfolio Finds Two New Owners, Solar Industry, Matthew Mercure, December 29, 2020
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