Under a deal signed by a California utility company, the city will have the world's two biggest solar power plants. These solar panels will cover 32.5 sq km and will produce 800 MW of electricity. The Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) with the help of two Silicon Valley firms will build the plants near San Luis Obispo. This has been seen as great leap forward in economies of scale and a futuristic wave.

 

The exact location of the plants will be central California coast which is equidistant from the state's main population clusters and cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The projects are expected to produce 1.65 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which accordingly will fulfill the demand of electricity of 239,000 homes of California each year.

 

Jack Keenan of PG&E on the project commented that this commitment not only will move forward in meeting renewable goal, it will play a significant role in the renewable energy sector. He concluded that the utility-scale deployment of PV (photovoltaic) technology may well become cost competitive with other forms of renewable energy generation, such as solar thermal and wind.