Los Angeles Department of Water & Power will use solar panels made by SolarWorld to produce up to 11.6 megawatts of power at a facility in the high desert. Engineering work is already taking place at the Adelanto Switching and Convertor Station for the solar array. Specialists from the SolarWorld facility in Camarillo will provide their project engineering expertise. SolarWorld is looking forward to demonstrating its project-engineering ingenuity for the DWP project, said Raju Yenamandra, U.S. vice president of sales and a 30-year veteran of SolarWorld’s plant in Camarillo. “The technical features of Adelanto are advanced, and the design requirements are more sophisticated than typical systems of this size,” Yenamandra said. The solar array will be built on a 42-acre site at the southern terminus of DWP’s southern transmission system. The project will produce 22,400 megawatt-hours during its first year. The project has been funded with federal stimulus dollars.
