ProLogis Partners with SoCal Utility to Install Solar Panels on Commercial Buildings

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ProLogis Partners with SoCal Utility to Install Solar Panels on Commercial Buildings

March 27, 2008
By: Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor

ProLogis said today it was leasing 670,000 square feet of roof space at a Fontana, Calif., facility to Southern California Edison (SCE), the state’s biggest electric utility, as part of the nation’s largest solar cell installation program.

The area at ProLogis’ Kaiser Distribution Park will be used to install and maintain enough solar panels to provide electricity for up to 1,426 households for a year. SCE plans to complete an additional five to 10 installations by the end of 2008. Each installation is comprised of one to two megawatts of solar panels. After Phase I, the utility’s goal is to put in 50 megawatts of solar panel installations each year for a total of 250 megawatts, the largest in the United States, according to a ProLogis release today.

“This project has the potential to become a breakthrough solar energy program,” Jeffery Schwartz, ProLogis chairman & CEO, said in the release. “We are thrilled to partner with SCE on their first rooftop solar installation and look forward to providing additional roof space as the project gains momentum, which will in turn support our own sustainability goals and leverage existing assets.”

The largest owner and developer of industrial space in Southern California, ProLogis owns 180 distribution facilities with more than 41 million square feet of space in SCE’s coverage area. The majority of those buildings would be eligible for the SCE program.

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1. California utility to spread 'solar power plant' across rooftops

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March 27, 2008 10:02 AM PDT

California utility to spread 'solar power plant' across rooftops

Posted by Martin LaMonica

Southern California Edison (SCE) on Thursday launched a program to build the equivalent of a small power plant on commercial rooftops with thousands of solar panels.

The program calls for SCE to put enough solar photovoltaic panels on commercial buildings to turn out 250 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply about 162,000 homes.

Once completed, the panels will take up 65,000,000 square feet of roofs in Southern California, or 2 square miles.

The total cost would be about $875 million and is projected to take about five years.

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