On January 12th, 2012, the Planning Commission for the City of Desert Hot Springs, California, has approved all land use entitlements for the Aloha Solar Energy project, which includes two photovoltaic plants with a combined generating capacity of 2.94 MW.

Project will cost USD 10 million, creates local jobs

The Aloha Solar Energy Project will cover about 14.4 acres and has a total project cost of about $10 million. The project developer noted that it will hire about 20 people to construct the project and will add another couple of permanent jobs to maintain the facility.

“This project creates new local jobs, provides new revenue, is privately funded, no noise, no emissions, no impacts on schools, water or sewer facilities, and with changes we made tonight all impacts are mitigated. Bring us more of these,” Planning Commissioner Steve Sobotta stated.

The Aloha Solar Energy Project will generate power under the California Renewable Energy Small Tariff Program (CREST Program), which was designed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in concert with major investor owned utilities to allow for smaller power producers to be competitive in the process of providing needed renewable energy within the State of California.

2012-01-18| Courtesy: City of Desert Hot Springs | solarserver.com © Heindl Server GmbH

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