BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — With the help of a new solar project, the California Department of Water Resources is inching closer to fully decarbonizing its operations by 2035.
The new 105-megawatt solar energy project coming online will be the biggest renewable energy project contracted by the Department of Water Resources, and it happens to be in Kern County.
The solar project — which has been dubbed The Pastoria Solar Project and is operated by the Houston-based energy Calpine — is located near the State Water Project’s Edmonston Pumping Plant and will help offset the amount of energy needed to power the pumping plant.
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The State Water Project is a water storage and delivery system that supplies water to over 25 million residents and over 700,000 acres of agricultural land in Southern California, according to the Department, as it lifts water almost 2,000 feet up through the Tehachapi Mountains…