San Francisco Bay Area government agencies celebrate nation’s largest solar energy partnership

Government Security News: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy joined Bay Area agencies to celebrate the Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project (R-REP), the nation’s largest solar energy government collaboration and the launch of the Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Project (FASPP), the nation’s first federal partnership to purchase solar power. McCarthy, the President’s leader on the Clean Power Plan, joined R-REP lead agency Alameda County and other local officials and solar industry executives at the West Winton Landfill in Hayward, a centerpiece of the 19-agency R-REP involving 186 Bay Area facilities for a total of 31 megawatts of solar power.

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