Quanta Services Inc. (PWR), Houston, won two contracts for utility-scale solar installations with Avenal Solar Holdings LLC, a joint venture between Eurus Energy America and NRG Solar, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. Under the contracts, Quanta will provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the 20MW Sun City Project and the 19MW Sand Drag Project, both of which are near Avenal, Calif. The Avenal projects, located in Kings County, Calif., were developed by Eurus and are owned jointly by Eurus and NRG. Under the contract, Quanta will provide comprehensive design and construction services including engineering and site preparation. Engineering is underway with construction expected to start by the end of September and completion projected for the spring of 2011.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.