{"id":4451,"date":"2012-01-12T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2012-01-12T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:09:34","slug":"massive-solar-project-announced-for-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/12\/massive-solar-project-announced-for-san-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Solar Project Coming to San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4236\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The 380 acre Webberville Solar Farm outside of Austin will power 5000 homes. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/solar-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4236\" title=\"solar cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/solar-cropped-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/solar-cropped-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/solar-cropped-620x300.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/solar-cropped-220x106.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mose Buchele \/ StateImpact Texas<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 380-acre Webberville Solar Farm outside of Austin will power 5,000 homes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just days after the ribbon was cut on<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/09\/largest-solar-farm-in-texas-opens\/\"> the largest solar farm in Texas<\/a> outside Austin, San Antonio has announced a new solar project that would dwarf its neighbor to the North: a 400 megawatt solar project that would be twice as large as any solar farm currently runningin the world.<\/p>\n<p>Some key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are about 717,000 people who get power from CPS energy, the city-owned electric utility in San Antonio, which uses around 7,500 megawatts of power. So this 400-megawatt project would provide power to about five percent of San Antonio. (The Webberville solar project in Austin, by comparison, will <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/09\/largest-solar-farm-in-texas-opens\/\">produce up to 30 megawatts of power<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>The company behind the project, OCI Solar Power, is a South Korean subsidiary, and will be moving its headquarters to San Antonio as a result of the agreement. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsenergy.com\/About_CPS_Energy\/News_Features\/News\/011112_Solar_Manufactuer_NR.asp\">press release<\/a>, the company says the project will result in &#8220;800-plus professional and technical jobs&#8221; with a payroll of nearly $40 million, and &#8220;more than $1 billion in construction investment.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The agreement is for 25 years, and will allow San Antonio to reach its goal of sourcing 20 percent of its energy from renewable energy by 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So does this mark the beginning of a &#8220;solar war&#8221; between Austin and San Antonio?<!--more--> Laylan Copelin of the <em>Austin American-Statesman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/san-antonio-takes-key-solar-step-will-austin-2096722.html\">took a stab at the question<\/a>, talking to Tom &#8220;Smitty&#8221; Smith of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/public-citizen\/\">Public Citizen<\/a>, a consumer advocacy nonprofit group. He told the paper that\u00a0&#8220;The race is on&#8221; between the two cities. \u00a0&#8220;They are going to beat us, unless Austin takes action quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after the ribbon was cut on the largest solar farm in Texas outside Austin, San Antonio has announced a new solar project that would dwarf its neighbor to the North: a 400 megawatt solar project that would be twice as large as any solar farm currently runningin the world. Some key points: There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[16,28,32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}