Westlands Solar Park
# Westlands Solar Park

The Westlands Solar Park is large-scale solar power project in Kings County south of Fresno, California. It intends to build many photovoltaic power plants with a capacity totaling upwards of 2,000 megawatts (MW), larger than the world's largest photovoltaic power plants operating as of 2017. It will be constructed on brownfield land owned by the Westlands Water District that is unusable for agriculture due to excess salt pollution.

Initial operation of a 2 MW demonstration project began in 2016, with the power sold to Anaheim Public Utilities. Additional projects of 20 MW and 250 MW are in various stages of planning, as of 2017. The developers planned to have 700 MW online by 2021, with full build-out by 2025. The real estate investment firm CIM Group joined the project in 2014. In 2017, plans for the site were downsized from 2,400 MW to 2,000 MW and 24,000 acres (9,700 ha) to 21,000 acres (8,500 ha). Construction began in 2020.

The first 125 MW phase of the Aquamarine project opened in September 2021, with the second 125 MW opening by the end of the year.

## Phases

| Project | Capacity | Status | Commission Date | Power purchase agreements |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Westside Solar WSP PV1 | 2 MW | Operational | August 12, 2016 | Anaheim Public Utilities |
| Westside Solar WSP PV2 | 20 MW | In Development | | |
| Westlands Aquamarine | 250 MW | Operational | September 2021, February 2022 | SMUD, SVP, VCEA |
| Westlands Chestnut | 150 MW | In Development | | |
| Westlands Solar Blue | 250 MW | In Development | | |
| RE Slate | 300 MW | In Development | | SVCE, MBCP |
| RE Slate ESS | 300 MW | In Development | | SVCE, MBCP |

## Electricity production

It produced 4,739 MWh in 2020.

