EI Solutions Chosen to Build Solar System for West County Wastewater District
10/17/07 – Pasadena-based EI Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, today announced that it will begin constructing a 1 megawatt solar electricity system for The West County Wastewater District’s main wastewater treatment plant in Richmond, Calif., later this year. EI Solutions says the system is being funded and built under a power purchase agreement with Solar Power Partners, who will own and operate the system while providing the plant with clean energy at a fixed price.
EI Solutions says the ground-mounted system will include state-of-the-art single-axis trackers that will be used to keep approximately 4,000 solar panels focused on the sun throughout the day to maximize solar energy production.
By displacing its utility power usage with clean solar power, the District estimates that it will substantially reduce its annual share of emissions by generating over 2 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity in the first year, while at the same time eliminating more than 3.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions and 897 pounds of nitrous oxide emissions annually.
EI Solutions has completed projects for a wide variety of public agencies and private companies, including the largest solar installation on a U.S. corporate campus at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. The company recently announced that it would build a solar installation at the headquarters of Sony Pictures Entertainment. EI Solutions and Energy Innovations are Idealab startups.
EI Solutions – www.eispv.com
Energy Innovations – www.energyinnovations.com
