Arevon Celebrates Completion of 400-MW Solar/1.2-GWh Storage for Los Angeles

City of Los Angeles leaders are celebrating completion of a $2 billion solar power and energy storage project in Kern County.

Arevon Energy announced completion of both phases of the Eland Solar-plus-Storage Center. Eland’s two large-scale solar facilities will capture a combined 400 MW of solar energy and store up to 1,200 MWh.

The power that will be generated by both phases could meet 7% of Los Angeles’s total energy consumption while reducing reliance on fossil fuels. Eland will be able to provide enough power to supply more than 266,000 households across Los Angeles.

“The Eland Solar-plus-Storage Center project alone will generate enough power to serve more than 266,000 homes in Los Angeles and push the city’s clean energy share above 60%, a major milestone in L.A.’s transition to being powered by 100% clean energy by 2035,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in a statement. “This project has had the lowest cost for solar and storage, translating to more affordable bills for our LADWP customers.”

The project is a collaboration between LADWP and Arevon Energy, the developer which will own and operate Eland. LADWP will procure Eland’s generated and stored power under a long-term power purchase agreement. On average, project and city leaders say, the cost of generation and storage is about 4 cents per kilowatt hour. 

Phase 1 of Eland was completed and energized in December 2024. Over the 25-year term of the contract, the Eland power purchase agreement will save LADWP’s ratepayers costs.

“When the city of Los Angeles first pursued renewable power some 20 years ago, it did so on moral grounds. It was ‘the right thing to do’ to reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions," said Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director of the Climate Resolve. "Flash forward to today – and solar power is now the right thing to do economically, producing electricity at a cost lower than that of coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Our children – and generations beyond – will thank the city of Los Angeles for its farsighted investment in renewable power."