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CalPortland Cement – Mojave Throughout the Antelope Valley, you will Lancaster is committed to becoming
Calportland.com/locations/california/mojave-plant find evidence of the region’s increasing the first city to fully embrace hydrogen s
importance to renewable energy
power. The city has partnered with SGH2
Granite Construction – Littlerock, production in California. Energy to launch a hydrogen production t
Palmdale, Arvin & Inyokern facility that can produce up to 3.8 million r
GraniteConstruction.com Not much more than a decade ago, only kilograms of hydrogen from 42,000 tons of
Searles Valley Minerals – Trona about 12 percent of California’s electricity waste annually. y
SVMinerals.com came from renewable sources — wind,
solar, geothermal, biomass and small The City is also working with Hitachi
hydroelectric facilities. Zosen Inova, New Planet Energy and
Waste Management to bring similar
But renewable energy reached 33 percent waste-to-energy technology solutions
of the state’s electrical production in 2020 to Lancaster and is also supporting
— and will continue to grow. Heliogen in demonstrating its novel solar
concentration technology to produce
In December 2021, Los Angeles County hydrogen at its Lancaster facility. The
announced that nearly all residents and locally produced hydrogen has various
businesses in unincorporated areas of the applications in industry, infrastructure
county now receive half of their energy and transportation, including supplying an
from renewable sources with a goal expanding network of hydrogen refueling
of achieving 100 percent clean power. stations across California.
The county projects that much of the
renewable energy will come from wind On a global scale, in 2021 a sister city
and solar farms in California. relationship was formed between
Lancaster and Namie, Japan, to unite a
In addition to large-scale commercial solar shared dedication to promoting hydrogen.
projects in both Los Angeles and Kern Namie Town was greatly affected by the
County areas of the Antelope Valley, there 2011 Daiichi nuclear tragedy and has
are more than 5,000 wind turbines in the since recovered to become a symbol
Tehachapi-Mojave wind corridor with an of green energy with one of the largest
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON important transmission line carrying the green hydrogen plants in the world. With
power to Southern California. these partners and initiatives, Lancaster
SoCalGas has been delivering clean, is at the forefront of advancing hydrogen
affordable and reliable energy to our innovation to secure a future of clean
customers for more than 150 years. Today energy.
it is the largest natural gas utility in North
America, and the energy the company
delivers is increasingly renewable, as
it strives to be the cleanest, safest and
most innovative energy company in
America. SoCalGas proudly serves 22
million Californians in more than 220 LANCASTER
communities from Fresno County to the
Mexican border, including the Antelope
Valley.
THE POWER TO CHOOSE
LANCASTER CHOICE
ENERGY (LCE)
LCE is the locally run power program
created by the City of Lancaster. In an
opportunity to deploy more zero-emission
electricity sources, the City is supporting
the development of advanced microgrids
under a grant awarded by the California
Energy Commission. The Lancaster
Advanced Energy Community project
features a 114-unit, affordable housing,
residential microgrid called HNR-1. LCE
will provide distributed energy resources
to this community, where buildings will
have solar energy production, battery
storage, and distribution all on-site as a
self-contained power grid. The project will
serve as a blueprint for the economic and
technical feasibility of Zero Net Emissions
building design and the new standard for
affordable housing in California.
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