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SUNNY SIDE UP
Solar power from space
Californian
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Renewables Portfolio Standard program, the CPUC
utilities
has approved a renewable energy contract for approved the agreement because it is consistent
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), with the state’s objective of increasing its reliance
commission furthering the state’s progress towards its on a diverse supply of renewable energy resources
has approved a
renewable energy goals. and of supporting renewable technologies at
reasonable costs and risks to ratepayers.
contract with a Through its power purchase agreement with
start up
Solaren Corporation, PG&E is entitled to A Solaren spokesperson suggested the company
generation from a first-of-its kind space-based could see the first deployment within seven years.
company to solar project. The experimental technology uses With no restrictions on size, the company is
place solar
orbiting satellites equipped with solar cells to planning solar panel arrays at least one kilometre
Issue VI 2009
convert the sun’s energy into electricity, which is long transmitting energy via radio frequency
panels in orbit then converted into radio frequency energy that transmissions.
around the
can be transmitted to a local receiver station.
The CPUC’s Renewables Portfolio Standard
Earth
Space-based solar power has been researched in program requires investor-owned utilities, energy
the U.S. for several decades and this summer the service providers, and community choice
Japanese government announced plans to pursue aggregators operating in California to obtain 20
-pv-management.com a space-based solar program. percent of their retail sales from renewable energy
sources by 2010.
.solar
California-based Solaren Corporation anticipates
www
1,700 gigawatt-hours of energy per year On September 15, 2009, Governor Arnold
throughout the 15-year contract term beginning in Schwarzenegger signed an Executive Order (S-21-
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2016 at a facility in Fresno County. While an 09) increasing the state’s Renewables Portfolio
experimental project is unique for the state’s Standard goal to 33 percent by 2020.
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