PG&E to buy buy up to 75 megawatts of wind energy from PPM Energy's Shiloh I Wind Project in the Montezuma Hills between Suisun City and Rio Vista

Article Last Updated: Monday, Aug 29, 2005 - 11:36:22 pm PDT

PG&E to buy locally-produced wind power

By Jeff Mitchell

SUISUN CITY -The San Francisco-based California Public Utilities Commission recently gave Pacific Gas & Electric permission to buy up to 75 megawatts of wind energy from PPM Energy's Shiloh I Wind Project in the Montezuma Hills between Suisun City and Rio Vista.

"Clean, renewable wind power is a key element in PG&E's plan to provide reliable, environmentally responsible energy for California," said Fong Wan, vice president of power contracts and electric resources development.

"These new wind energy resources approved today will supply enough power to serve more than 50,000 of our customers," Wan added.

With this agreement, PG&E has met its annual goal of increasing its renewable purchases by a minimum of 1 percent of retail electricity load. The utility currently supplies 31 percent of its customer load from renewable resources with 18 percent from its large hydroelectric facilities and 13 percent from small hydro and other renewable resources.

In total, nearly 50 percent of PG&E's retail electricity load is served from generating resources that have no emissions that contribute to global warming.