Tucson’s Solon Corp. plant has been tapped by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E), one of the nation’s largest utilities, to build a photovoltaic power plant in northern California with a capacity of 2 megawatts.

The power plant, which is to be completed by December, is part of a pilot project for PG&E’s solar energy initiative under which it plans to use photovoltaic power to deliver more than 1,000 gigawatt hours of electricity each year by 2015. That would be enough to supply up to 150,000 households. The program is one of the largest photovoltaic projects in the United States.

Headquartered in San Francisco, PG&E serves more than 15 million people in northern and central California.

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Solon’s parent company is based in Berlin, Germany, with subsidiaries across Europe and in the U.S. Its Tucson plant is at 6950 S. Country Club Road.