SOLAR: Groundskeepers work to maintain the Mangilao Solar PV Park Tuesday Nov. 11, 2025 in Mangilao. David Castro/The Guam Daily Post
SOLAR: Groundskeepers work to maintain the Mangilao Solar PV Park Tuesday Nov. 11, 2025 in Mangilao. David Castro/The Guam Daily Post
The Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission and Guam Land Use Commission have each approved applications by Pacific Energy Corp. relative to the construction and operation of photovoltaic power facilities
These facilities are part of the 18.4-megawatt renewable energy project awarded to the Pacific Energy Corp. & Landscape Management Systems Inc. consortium by the Guam Power Authority. This is just one of various awards projects of the power utility’s Phase 4 renewable energy initiative.
The Pacific Energy project is split into four areas. The GHLUC and GLUC decided applications for projects in the municipalities of Barrigada and Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon on Thursday.
The other sites are in Pulantat and Malojloj.
The Barrigada project is adjacent to the former Admiral Nimitz Golf Course and is made up of three lots about 11 acres large in total. The GHLUC approved a conditional use permit Thursday to allow for the construction and operation of the solar power facility.
The site in Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon municipality is between the new Ukudu Power Plant and Two Lovers Point. The Guam Land Use Commission approved a zone change from Hotel zoning to M1, or light industrial, zoning to facilitate the construction of the solar power facility.
According to documents from the Public Utilities Commission, renewable energy power purchase agreements, or REPAs, for the Barrigada and Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon facilities are estimated to cost GPA about $40.4 million and $40 million, respectively, throughout the 25-year base term of the agreements.
REPAs for the Pulantat and Malojojo facilities are estimated to cost GPA about $36.7 million and $40.3 million, respectively, for the base term.
These costs total to about $157.4 million for all four facilities over the 25-year base term of the REPAs, or about $6.3 million per year on average.
“However, this cost will likely be reduced or neutralized by the reduction of GPA’s existing fuel oil costs caused by using renewable energy from the REPAs at issue here,” a PUC counsel report on the facilities stated.
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