The company’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) division owns the site and will oversee the various phases of the project development.
SolarWorld Americas president Kevin Kilkelly remarked that the project is the company’s latest utility-scale project.
"The projects spotlight the best of American solar ingenuity, combining our U.S.-manufactured solar panels and single-axis tracker with some of the country’s brightest solar engineering and construction talent," added Kilkelly.
The project is spread across 164 acres between the Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree communities. It will employ 100,092 solar modules manufactured by SolarWorld to produce 58,312MWh energy per annum and reduce carbon emissions by 31,000 tons.
According to the company, once completed, Desert Star will rank among California’s largest operating crystalline-silicon solar installations.
