Page 8 - Q2 2021 Rosendin Corporate Newsletter

May 2021, with the peak manpower investments that will modernize our
AREVON & ROSENDIN TALK CLEAN ENERGY JOBS
with Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm
Cabinet Member Toured
Townsite Solar Facility with
Nevada Congresswoman Susie Lee
nternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) workers in Boulder City,
I Nevada gave Secretary of Energy Jennifer
M. Granholm and Congresswoman Susie Lee
(NV-03) a demonstration of how solar panels
are installed during a private tour of a Nevada
construction site. The Energy Secretary and
Congresswoman toured Arevon’s Townsite
Solar Facility in Boulder City on June 11, 2021,
to meet workers and promote opportunities
in clean energy jobs.
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Currently, the company is building
of 520 craft workers. The IBEW has
been critical to the success of the
project by providing a steady stream
of reliable, qualified craft workers.
“As the operator of one of the
largest solar portfolios in the country,
Arevon is proud of its contribution
to Nevada’s clean energy economy,”
said Justin Johnson, CEO of Arevon.
“At Townsite and beyond, we’ve
created thousands of jobs building
solar and storage power plants across
the country. We appreciate everyone
who’s worked on constructing
Townsite and we look forward to
completing this project by the end
of the year.”
Once completed at the end of
2021, Townsite will generate more
than 500,000 MWh per year of
renewable energy, enough to
power 60,000 homes annually,
avoiding 400,000 tons of carbon
dioxide emissions annually.
“Nevada is consistently leading this
country in clean energy innovation.
Solar power is an undeniably smart
move at a time when we need to
both reduce our carbon footprint and
create good-paying jobs,” said U.S.
Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03). “Earlier this
year, I was proud to help introduce
Arevon, North America’s leading renewable energy the Electric Power Infrastructure
Improvement Act which will help
company, is developing the 232 MW DC/193.95 MW
AC solar PV plant south of Las Vegas with Rosendin promote construction of transmission
projects across the nation through
Renewable Energy Group (RREG). Company leaders an investment tax credit. I’m looking
met with Granholm and Lee to explain the project,
while IBEW workers demonstrated techniques forward to continuing to work with
this Administration to make historic
and described what these jobs mean to them.
“This solar plant is the perfect example of how we can
use the potential in clean energy to create good-paying
union jobs that grow the economy, reduce energy bills,
and address climate change,” said Energy Secretary
Jennifer M. Granholm. “President Biden’s American
Jobs Plan will create millions of clean energy jobs all
across the supply chain that will be needed to plan
facilities, manufacture materials, install transmission
lines and solar panels, and it’s going to help us get
our country get to 100% clean electricity by 2035.”
The Townsite Solar Facility currently supports 480
construction trade jobs. Since November, IBEW Local 357
workers contributed over 147,800 labor hours through
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energy systems, create thousands 15 solar facilities across its service
of good-paying jobs, and build a territories, including the largest to
better economy for everyone.” date in both Texas and California.
The 1,053-acre Townsite project “While growth of the utility scale solar
incorporates 528,084 First Solar’s industry has been assured by strong
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Series 6 photovoltaic (PV) modules market economics over these past
on a NEXTracker Horizontal Single few years, the new administration’s
Axis Tracking System and uses support to drive Zero-Carbon
Sungrow Inverters. Upon completion, Energy production by 2035 will
the Townsite Solar Facility will be significantly accelerate opportunities
co-located with one of the largest for innovation, furthering market
battery energy storage systems (BESS) expansions and sustainable jobs
built to date. Power generated on-site creation,” said Duncan Frederick,
will be distributed underground to VP of Business Development for
a 230kV substation and overhead Rosendin Renewable Energy Group.
generation tie line to the Mead “Rosendin has managed its growth
Substation just outside Boulder City. by taking a strategic approach to
building strong relationships with its
trade partners, and we are grateful
to the IBEW for providing a trusted,
stable workforce that has allowed
Townsite Solar us to lead the solar EPC market in
Nevada as well as help us enter new
Facility currently target markets across the country.”
supports 480
construction
trade jobs.
“The City of Boulder City has
always been ahead of the curve
when it comes to alternative, Tour the Project
renewable energy; it comes from
our roots. Hoover Dam generates
of 4.5 billion kilowatt hours annually,
keeping power supplied to some One of the fastest-growing
eight million people in Arizona, renewable energy groups in the
California and Southern Nevada,” country, Rosendin Renewable
said Mayor Kiernan McManus. Energy Group is building a robust
“Here we are, 85 years after Hoover workforce through the active
Dam opened, leading the charge in recruitment of experienced engineers,
renewable energy. It’s a source of estimators, and project managers.
pride for Boulder City and all Rosendin works closely with the
of Southern Nevada.” IBEW to offer a sustainable and
productive career path for industry
Rosendin is a leading constructor
professionals who want to make
of clean energy facilities in Southern a difference. As an innovative
Nevada and throughout the West.
company dedicated to inclusivity and
The electrical contracting company equity, Rosendin provides a wide
employed over 1,960 craft workers to range of opportunities for growth
install over 1.6 million solar modules potential to qualified professionals.
across five job sites in the region.