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The impressive Southern California Edison’s solar power panels project involves installing the panels on 150 Southern California commercial roofs. Now the company is working on attaching 33,000 solar panels to a 600,000-square-foot commercial roof in Fontana, California, which will generate 2 million watts of power to supply about 1,300 average Southern California households at a point in time.
The photovoltaics system is provided by First Solar, the winner of the bid, designer of a high-end thin-film photovoltaic technology.



“First Solar’s successful bid validated our cost forecast to regulators — SCE’s solar energy project will significantly reduce the cost of installed photovoltaic generation in California,” said SCE President John R. Fielder.
“We are pleased to work with Edison on a project we believe will demonstrate the solar PV system business model needed to dramatically reduce distributive solar electricity costs,” said Michael J. Ahearn, CEO of First Solar. “Edison’s project confirms the important role of PV solar power plants in delivering clean, affordable electricity to the nation’s fastest growing urban areas.”



SCE will continue to install 3.5 million advanced photovoltaic panels, translating to 250 megawatts of solar generating capacity, during next 5 years, which will provide power for 162,000 Southern California homes.
The current project costs $875 million, funds that came from the California Public Utilities Commission.

Among benefits we enumerate: direct connectivity to the nearest neighborhood circuit, reduced costs, reduced installation time which would have been longer if there have been building new transmission lines, peak customer demands matched, and the creation of new jobs in Southern California.



All these are accomplished base on solar power panels’ propriety of transforming sunlight into electricity via a chemical process: when light strikes the semiconductor layer that form an electric field, which is positive on one side and negative on the other side, electrons are knocked loose from the atoms of the material creating the current, while the wires attached to the positive and negative sides, will carry the electricity from the cell to the powered device.