By Chris Clarke
REWIRE
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a plan Friday to buy 100 megawatts of solar power from property owners throughout the city of Los Angeles.
The new Clean LA Solar program, an expansion of a previous 10-megawatt pilot feed-in tariff (FiT) program operated by DWP, is expected to create about 4,500 jobs in Los Angeles as property owners install solar panels and sell power to DWP for about 17 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Under the new FiT program, which will be the largest such program in a U.S. city, DWP will offer 20 megawatts’ worth of new long-term power purchase contracts to qualifying property owners every six months, starting in February. Systems must be at least 30 kilowatts in capacity to qualify.
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