Standard Solar invests in 7 MW distributed generation solar portfolio in US

Standard Solar, Inc. has acquired a 7 megawatt (MW) portfolio of distributed generation (DG) solar projects for the Lake Elsinore Unified School District (LEUSD) in Lake Elsinore, California.

Standard Solar will finance, own and operate all eight projects which are currently planned for phased development with all systems expected to be online in 2020. The projects were developed by Lamb Energy, Inc. Stronghold Engineering Inc. will perform the installation of the projects.

The projects include a 3 MW ground-mount array at the West Riverside Landfill, a 75-acre capped landfill, for which the property has been leased from the Riverside County Department of Waste Resources (DWR). The landfill system will sell its electricity to Southern California Edison who will in turn issue bill credits to the power bills for 29 power meters of schools and buildings in LEUSD that are not suitable candidates for on-site solar.

The remaining projects will consist of 4 MW of solar canopies at seven schools in the LEUSD: Canyon Lake Middle School, David Brown Middle School, Lakeland Village School, Lakeside High School, Temescal Canyon High School, Terra Cotta Middle School and Ortega Continuation High School.

The eight projects are expected to generate 12,179,760 kilowatt hours of energy, enough to offset the greenhouse gas emissions from 1,829 passenger vehicles driven for one year and the CO2 emissions from 1,502 homes’ electricity use for one year.