Lower electric rates coming to over 3,500 in Central Valley

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A caller star task acceptable to prevention residents 20% connected their electrical measure is officially launching Monday successful Visalia with further projects poised for Corcoran and Lemoore.

The Community Solar Project, developed by Dimension Energy, volition present clean, solar-powered energy to 1,172 households successful Visalia, 1,271 households successful Corcoran, and 1,243 households successful Lemoore.

In summation to its eco-benefits, the renewable resources institution says the task volition supply energy astatine a 20% discount and prevention residents an mean of $40 per month. Visalia's 20.2-acre star farm, which is astir 10 minutes from downtown, is besides poised to make caller jobs for the community.

Dimension Energy says the aviator projects are the archetypal and past of their benignant and volition service arsenic a exemplary to the California Public Utilities Commission arsenic it considers however to deploy the $250 cardinal successful Solar For All funds from the Environmental Protection Agency this year. Dimension Energy developed the initiatives arsenic portion of the Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff (DAC-GT) program.