Municipal Aggregation Signs 15-Year PPA For Wind Power

Scout Clean Energy and Peninsula Clean Energy have signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that will provide San Mateo County and city of Los Banos customers with 76.35 megawatts (MW) from the repowering of the Pacheco Pass Wind Farm in Merced County, CA (to be renamed the Gonzaga Ridge Wind Farm, LLC (GRWF).

The repowered facility is planned to consist of 147.5 MW of wind energy and a 50-MW four-hour Battery Energy Storage System. Upon reaching commercial operations, GRWF will provide around 350,000 megawatt hours of electricity each year

Construction, which will begin in late 2023 with operations starting around the end of October 2024.

The project will replace the existing 162-turbine wind farm in Pacheco State Park, originally built nearly four decades ago

Peninsula Clean Energy is a Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) serving customers in San Mateo County and will also begin service in April 2022 to Los Banos in Merced County.

Gonzaga Ridge is being developed, owned, and operated by Scout Clean Energy. Scout is a portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a private equity infrastructure fund.