Sonoma Clean Power inks deal for floating solar panel project

Sonoma County’s new public electricity supplier is turning to the sun and water — the airspace over treated sewage ponds, specifically — to generate power for local homes and businesses.

Under a deal signed Thursday with a San Francisco-based renewable energy developer, officials with Sonoma Clean Power, now the default electricity provider in Sonoma County, unveiled a plan to install a 12.5-megawatt solar farm on floating docks atop holding ponds operated by the county Water Agency.

When completed in 2016, the project, which will provide enough electricity to power 3,000 homes, will be the largest solar installation in the county.

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The above is an excerpt of Sonoma Clean Power inks deal for floating solar panel project by Matt Brown for The Press Democrat. Image Credit: Sonoma Clean Power.