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Publish Date : 05-Sep-2015

The Department of the Navy (DON), Western Area Power Administration (Western), and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power held a ceremony at Naval Air Station North Island, California, celebrating an agreement to build a 210 megawatt (MW) direct current solar facility to benefit 14 DON installations.

Adding solar energy to Naval installations will help in the diversification of the DON's shore energy portfolio and in providing long-term cost stability, which eventually contributes to the DON's energy security priorities.

In May last year, the DON and Western inked an interagency deal that allowed Western to issue a request for proposal (RFP) and then select Sempra U.S. Gas & Power's Mesquite Solar 3 project, a solar plant sited 60 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona. Over 650,000 photovoltaic (PV) panels on ground-mounted, horizontal single-axis trackers will be installed, providing a third of the energy required to power 14 Navy and Marine Corps installations. Construction of Mesquite Solar 3 starts this month and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power expects the project to be complete by the end of 2016.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who hosted the ceremony with Western and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, noted emphasized the agreement's importance.

Mabus said, "The collaboration on Mesquite Solar 3 is a triumph of innovative problem solving, and will help to increase the DON's energy security by diversifying our power portfolio and improving energy efficiency. This agreement is also projected to save the DON at least $90 million over the life of the project."

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