Peninsula Clean Energy To Install New Solar For 12 SMC Buildings

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Harnassing new federal incentives, Peninsula Clean Energy recently inked agreements to install new solar systems and battery storage equipment on public buildings in San Mateo County and nine of its cities.

The agency announced the 20-year agreements Tuesday to generate 1.7 megawatts of solar power for a dozen buildings. Officials said the projects will make the Peninsula home to now of the first renewable energy projects in the nation to tap the new federal benefits. Funding was made available through the Inflation Reduction Act.

The new installations are on track to be up and running by the end of this year and are expected to save the participants an estimated $17 million.

Here's where the solar projects are planned:

• San Mateo County Human Services Agency Center
• Brisbane Mission Blue Center
• Colma Community Center
• Hillsborough Public Works Yard
• Los Banos Community Center
• Los Banos Wastewater Plant
• Millbrae Town Center
• Millbrae Recreation Center
• Pacifica Community Center
• San Bruno Aquatics Center
• San Carlos Youth Center

"We want to do everything we can to bring more renewable power online," said Jan Pepper, Peninsula Clean Energy's CEO. "With this innovative program, we take the burden of solar and storage project development off of city and county staff and achieve cost reductions through scale. This is a win for our customers as well as a win for Peninsula Clean Energy in continuing to execute on our public agency mission."

The agency said it is already well into the second round of the project, with designs completed to install solar systems at dozens more sites in the coming months.