Press Release
SALT LAKE CITY — The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) named Rocky Mountain Power to its annual Top 10 Utility Solar List. SEPA, formerly the Solar Electric Power Association, made the announcement Tuesday at the Utility Solar Conference in Denver.
Rocky Mountain Power ranked eighth on the Top 10 Annual Megawatts list with 194 megawatts in 2015.
“We appreciate this honor for 2015 and Rocky Mountain Power intends to continue to add solar resources in a way that is fair to all our customers,” said Cindy Crane, Rocky Mountain Power President and CEO. “This is part of our strong commitment to being good environmental stewards.”
The ninth annual survey includes figures from more than 300 utilities across the country on solar connected to the grid both in 2015 and in total since 2007.
As a division of PacifiCorp, the company will add more than 1,000 megawatts of incremental solar and wind capacity through power purchase agreements in 2016. In addition, Rocky Mountain Power will soon start building a 20 megawatt solar plant near Holden, Utah. This plant will be used for the Subscriber Solar program that allows customers to get their power from the sun without having to install rooftop solar panels.
“We saw record installations of solar in 2015 across the United States,” said Julia Hamm, SEPA’s President and CEO. “Utilities are responding to consumer interest in solar with cost-effective, innovative programs that provide benefits to their customers and the grid.”
In all, the utilities on this year’s Top 10 list account for 65 percent of total new solar connected in the country last year. The full Top 10 listings are available online atwww.sepatop10.org