Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)(NYSE: PEG) on Wednesday dedicated a 15-megawatts (MW) photovoltaic solar plant in northern Florida.
The facility consisting of 200,000 ground mounted solar panels made by First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) situated on 100 acres in Jacksonville, Florida.
PSEG Jacksonville Solar is the largest solar installation owned by PSEG Solar Source, PSEG’s solar developer. The local municipal utility, JEA initiated the solar effort and has a long-term agreement with PSEG Solar Source to purchase the electricity generated by the solar panels.
juwi solar USA Inc. (JSI), based in Colorado was the engineering,
procurement and construction contractor and developed the facility.
“PSEG Solar Source can locate solar facilities anywhere in the US but chose Jacksonville for three reasons: strong Florida sun, a partner in JEA with a vision for delivering clean energy to its customers and a political climate that is supportive of solar development,” said Diana Drysdale, who heads PSEG Solar Source. “While this is our largest product to date, it is not our last. We are actively developing additional solar projects here in the US.”
PSEG is a diversified energy company based in Newark, NJ and currently the fourth largest owner of solar facilities in the US. PSEG Solar Source’s other utility scale solar projects are the 12-megawatt PSEG Wyandot Solar Farm (the largest in Ohio) and the 2-megawatt Mars Solar Garden in Hackettstown, New Jersey (which provides power to the adjacent M&Ms plant).
PSE&G, a regulated PSEG gas and electric company in NJ, is currently building the largest and second largest solar facilities in New Jersey, as well as installing grid connected solar panels on 200,000 utility poles in that state.
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