{"id":1004397386,"date":"2020-03-05T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004397386"},"modified":"2020-03-05T21:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:11:25","slug":"cim-group-breaks-ground-on-first-phase-of-2-7gw-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cim-group-breaks-ground-on-first-phase-of-2-7gw-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"CIM Group Breaks Ground on First Phase of 2.7GW Solar Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004366852\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004366852\" data-attachment-id=\"1004366852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/engies-largest-solar-project-breaks-ground-in-texas\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"776,583\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-HX90V&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.05&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"solar-panels-3507947_960_720\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image via Pixabay&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg?w=776\" class=\"wp-image-1004366852 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/11\/solar-panels-3507947_960_720.jpg?resize=768,577 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004366852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image via Pixabay<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of North America\u2019s largest permitted solar parks has broken ground in California. The master-planned energy park, dubbed Westlands Solar Park, will spread across more than 20,000 acres in San Joaquin Valley in western Fresno and Kings counties.<\/p>\n<p>The owner and developer of the facility\u2014which is said to grow in excess of 2.7 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity\u2014is CIM Group, which will handle the project in multiple phases. Once complete, it is estimated to provide clean energy to more than 1.2 million households. The first phase is named Aquamarine, a 250-megawatt solar photovoltaic farm.<\/p>\n<p>This first phase has received all entitlement and conditional use approvals following a full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/uli-report-3-trends-reducing-the-cre-carbon-footprint\/\">environmental impact<\/a> review, with minimal impacts on prime farmland, environmentally protected species and habitat. Westlands Solar Park is located in a designated Opportunity Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, CIM has signed a power purchase agreement with Valley Clean Energy Alliance for 50 megawatts of capacity. The electricity provider is governed locally and serves the cities of Davis and Woodland and unincorporated portions of Yolo County. Initial delivery is slated for late 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westlands Solar Park is located in a designated Opportunity Zone in California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley in western Fresno and Kings counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004366852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21748,21742,21786,15],"tags":[33194,35875],"class_list":["post-1004397386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-industrial","category-latest","category-sustainability","category-west","tag-cim-group","tag-solar-power"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CIM Group Breaks Ground on First Phase of 2.7GW Solar Project - 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