San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Company
(PG&E) has announced that it will purchase 90 megawatts (MW) of renewable
wind energy from Klondike Wind Power III
LLC’s wind facility in Sherman County, Oregon.
The
long-term agreement between PG&E and the Iberdrola Renewables subsidiary is
set to start with the first deliveries in December 2008, and will generate
approximately 260 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually, which is
enough energy to serve roughly 38,000 residential homes each year.
This joins
another PG&E deal, signed in July 2008, with Horizon Wind Energy LLC for
100 MW of wind power.
Besides
wind power, PG&E has also recently signed contracts totaling 800 MW of
solar power with OptiSolar and SunPower.
With this
most recent deal, 24 percent of PG&E’s future deliveries from contractual
commitments will be from renewable sources.