Terra-Gen, LLC selected Mortenson as the full Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractor for both the solar and energy storage scopes of the Edwards & Sanborn solar and energy storage project located in Kern County, California. The project consists of 864 megawatts of solar and 3,287 megawatt-hours of energy storage. It is currently the largest single solar and battery energy storage project to reach this milestone.
Site construction commenced in Q1 2021 and reached substantial completion in 2023.
Project Facts:
- Over 98 miles of MV Wire
- Over 361 miles of DC Wire
- 3,287 MWh of battery capacity
- 120,720 batteries installed
- Reached 890 craft team members on site
- 1.9+ Million solar panels installed
- 864 MWdc of solar energy
- 4,660 total acres of sustainable energy production
- Largest project of its kind in U.S. Air Force history