SCE Named No. 1 Solar Utility in U.S. for Second Year in a Row
April 26 2017 - 1:43PM
Business Wire
Southern California Edison delivered more solar energy to its
customers last year than any other utility in the nation, according
to rankings compiled by the Smart Electric Power Alliance. The
rankings were announced today at the alliance’s annual Utility
Conference.
SCE connected 1,648 megawatts of solar energy to the grid last
year through new and expanded residential and commercial solar
installations as well as through utility power-purchase agreements.
This represents a 31 percent increase over the 1,258 megawatts SCE
connected in 2015, when it also earned the alliance’s top spot for
megawatt capacity. SCE has placed among the top-10 utilities every
year since the alliance began publishing its solar rankings in
2007.
Among the company’s other solar energy accomplishments:
- SCE connects an average of 4,400 solar
customers to the electric grid monthly, equal to a solar customer
coming online every 10 minutes.
- SCE has connected more than 220,000
residential and commercial customers to the grid, accelerated by
the success of the California Solar Initiative, totaling more than
1,700 megawatts of solar capacity. SCE also has large
power-purchase agreements with private suppliers exceeding 3,500
megawatts of capacity.
- The company has a long history of solar
innovation. SCE's Coolwater plant in the Mojave Desert — later
named Solar One — began operation in 1982 as the nation's first
large-scale solar electric generation site. The 10-megawatt
facility was the largest plant of its type in the world, and the
first commercial plant in the U.S. to use solar thermal
technology.
The alliance’s rankings recognize utilities in four categories:
Top-10 utilities for most new solar megawatts and most new watts
per customer and top-10 utilities for most new storage megawatts
and most watts per customer. The 10th annual survey includes
figures from 412 U.S. utilities on solar connected to the grid both
last year and in total since 2007. The full top-10 listings are
available online at sepatop10.org.
“California’s electricity customers have made it very clear,
they want more renewable, clean energy,” said Kevin Payne, SCE’s
CEO. “SCE is committed to meeting customers’ needs, as well as to
meeting the state’s climate and air quality targets, so we continue
to innovate and invest in our electric grid to make it all
possible.”
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company,
Southern California Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric
utilities, serving a population of approximately 15 million via 5
million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area
within Central, Coastal and Southern California.
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