Soboba Casino Resort
Scale will build a microgrid for the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians at its Soboba Casino Resort that will provide cost savings and energy resilience services for the community.
Historically, Tribal communities face higher utility service costs, interconnection fees, and frequency of power outages, making the electricity cost savings and reliability benefits of on-site distributed energy resource (DER) solutions extremely appealing. Scale's microgrid will utilize solar and battery storage to deliver low-cost, clean energy-powered resilience for the Soboba Casino Resort.
On a typical day, the Soboba microgrid will optimize its use of on-site DERs to minimize costs – a particular concern after years of fast-rising utility electricity rates. During extended grid outages, the microgrid will use these resources to provide backup power for the resort as well as cooling and other emergency services for the local community.
Big Picture Impact
$30 Million
Projected Cumulative Savings
$0
Up-Front Capital From Soboba
20,000+
Tons of CO2 Emissions Avoided
The Soboba Microgrid
Soboba’s 474,000 square foot casino, hotel, and golf course will reduce its dependence on the utility grid with a microgrid including 1.5 MW of rooftop solar and a 6 MWh energy storage system. Scale will own and operate the microgrid under a microgrid service agreement (MSA), which eliminates up-front costs and replaces a large capital expense with a monthly service fee.
1.5 MW
Solar PV
6 MWh
Battery Storage
"This project serves our mission to strengthen our tribe’s sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and prosperity. We are responsible for helping our people and our land thrive for generations to come, and we believe this microgrid system is an important step towards advancing our objectives."
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