Downtown-based Clean Power Alliance has signed another deal for power from renewable resources.
In July, Clean Power Alliance signed a power purchase agreement with San Diego-based renewable energy developer Avantus Clean Energy. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The 20-year agreement calls for the Clean Power Alliance to purchase at a fixed price all the 200 megawatts of solar power generated by the combined solar and battery storage project Rexford 2 in southeastern Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley. Those 200 megawatts are enough to power 84,000 single-family homes each year.
“This project provides a fixed long-term price, helping protect our customers from energy market volatility while delivering renewable energy and battery storage that can help meet demand when it matters most,” said Lindsay Descagnia, vice president of power supply for the Clean Power Alliance.
The project is expected to come online in late 2028 or early 2029.
Energy aggregator
Founded in 2017, Clean Power Alliance is the state’s largest community choice energy aggregator. Under a 2002 law, community choice aggregators allow municipalities to band together to form energy procurement companies. The aim is to provide competition to the three investor-owned utility monopolies – Oakland-based Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, a unit of Rosemead-based Edison International, and San Diego Gas & Electric, a unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy.
The Clean Power Alliance now has 38 member cities in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, including Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Claremont, Culver City, Downey and Santa Monica. It supplies about three million residential and business customers with power from its 2,916-megawatt portfolio of renewable power.
In 2020, the Clean Power Alliance signed a 15-year deal to purchase all the power generated from the Rexford 1 solar and battery storage center in southeastern Tulare County, which has a capacity of 400 megawatts. That project was developed by a company called 8minute Solar, now known as Avantus. The plant is owned and operated by AES Clean Energy, a unit of Arlington, Virginia-based AES Corp.
