San Diego Gas & Electric Achieves 23.6% of Renewable Energy Procurement in 2013

Based on the latest RPS Procurement Progress Reports filed by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), the utility procured 23.6% of its 2013 retail electricity sales with renewable power. It is moving toward the state goal of 33% by 2020.

SDG&E sold 16,164,015 MWh of electricity during 2013.
SDG&E procured 3,811,607 MWh of renewable energy during 2013.

Out of 3,811,607 MWh of renewable energy, solar PV accounts for 791,675. This means that solar represents 20.7% of the renewable procurement.

It is still 20.7%, but it was a big jump from 2012. During 2012, only 3,264 MWh of solar was procured.

Some of utility-scale solar projects contributed to SDG&E's achievements in 2013 were:

• Cataline Solar Project (143 MW-DC/110 MW-AC) in Kern County
• CSolar South Solar Project in Imperial County
• Campo Verde Solar Project(139 MW-AC) in Imperial County
• Arlington Valley Solar Energy Project (127 MW-AC) in Arlington, AZ

CSolar South project in the Imperial Valley 

More solar projects are expected to be connected and deliver electricity this year.  In 2014, the total procurement of solar is supposed to increase to 2,021,699 MWh - 2.5 times of 2013, according to the plan submitted to the CPUC.