September 30, 2021 – Intermountain Healthcare is joining a utility-scale solar project near Huntington, Utah, that will supply 20% of the health system’s total electricity needs.
The new power purchase agreement from the Castle Solar Project, owned and developed by D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), will supply Intermountain facilities with clean renewable energy for the next 20 years, the organization said.
The project is made possible by Intermountain’s partnership with DESRI, a leading national renewable energy developer-owner-operator, and Rocky Mountain Power.
DESRI will own, construct, and operate the solar instillation while Rocky Mountain Power will provide the transmission grid. Because the project is being built partially on state trust lands, some of the money will go back to the state for public schools and institutions.
The project is expected to be operational by mid-2022. The amount of energy generated for this project is equivalent to the total energy used by nearly 5,200 homes in one year, according to the EPA.
Intermountain’s portion of the project will produce approximately 55,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity per year.