Signal Energy, the Chattanooga-based subsidiary of EMJ Corp. which has grown into one of the nation’s biggest builders of solar and wind farms, will start building another five solar projects in California and Texas under a new agreement announced last month with Intersect Power.
The combined output of the new solar installations will total 1.7 gigawatts and be generated from 3.7 million solar module to be installed over an area totally roughly 15 square miles across the five projects.
“Intersect Power brought us into their development process very early as a true partner, which provided the opportunity to jointly create the best solution for each project, resulting in the greatest value for the entire team,” said Greg Pawson, president of Signal Energy, which will perform the engineering, procurement and construction for the Intersect Power projects.
Terms of the investment and building costs for the project were not released. The project is one of several under development by Signal Energy, which began in 2005 and has already built about 40 solar installations and another 40 wind installations.
Signal Energy has been working with Intersect Power over the past 18 months to design the massive projects and construction on the sites is slated to begin in 2020.