SAN FRANCISCO - On Wednesday, May 13, U.S. E.P.A. Administrator Gina McCarthy will join Bay Area agencies to celebrate the nation's biggest local government collaborative for solar power and launch the nation's 1st federal solar partnership. Administrator McCarthy, the federal government's point person for the battle against climate change, will be joined by Bay Area officials and solar industry executives at the West Winton Landfill in Hayward, a centerpiece of a regional solar partnership of 19 local agencies in 4 Bay Area counties involving 186 solar facilities for a total of 31 megawatts of solar power. The Winton Landfill will be repurposed by installing 19,000 photovoltaic solar panels to generate over six megawatts of renewable power -- the 1st of its kind in the Bay Area and one of the biggest in California. McCarthy is also announcing the launch of a federal solar project, the 1st federal partnership to purchase solar power across multiple agencies, which was inspired by the success of the regional solar plan and other Bay Area efforts. Like the regional project, the federal partnership -- Forest Service, D.O.E., and General Services Administration -- will take advantage of economies of scale in solar installation at 9 federal sites in San Jose, Menlo Park, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Bruno, Santa Rosa, Carson City, Reno, and Mare Island.
WHO:
Gina McCarthy, U.S. E.P.A. Administrator
Richard Valle, Supervisor, District 2, Alameda Co. Board of Supervisors
Susan S. Muranishi, Co. Administrator, Alameda Co.
Bill Harrison, Mayor, City of Fremont
Sam Youneszadeh, Managing Director of Distributed Generation Sales for Western U.S.A. at SunEdison
Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley
WHEN:
Wed., May 13, 2015
Arrival: 10:00 AM
Event Start: 11:00 AM
WHERE:
West Winton Landfill at
4001 Winton Boulevard, Hayward
RSVP: News media please RSVP to Suzanne Skadowski, 415-972-3165,
[email protected] and online at
http://r-rep.splashthat.com/ with your media affiliation and contact information.
