Desert Water Agency installed a solar field at its Operations Center in the spring of 2005 and expanded the facility in fall of 2013. 

The solar facility helps power the Agency's Operations Center and Recycled Water Plant. The power is converted from DC power to AC power and then transmitted underground to its destination.  

The solar field is made up of 4,500 ground-mounted fixed tilt panels that produce just over a megawatt of energy and are about the size of two football fields. One megawatt is enough to power about 250 homes on a typical sunny Palm Springs day.  

It is estimated that the solar field will save the Agency and its customers about $6 million in energy costs during its lifetime.