STANFORD – Stanford University says it will run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2021 with the launch of its second solar generating plant yesterday.

The 88-megawatt solar plant will be located in Central California near Lemoore, and is scheduled to be completed in the next three years, according to university officials.

“Completing our transition to clean power … marks a major advance in our efforts to provide a sustainable learning environment for our campus,” university President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement.

Along with an existing solar plant in Rosamond and on-campus rooftop solar plates, Stanford expects the three power sources to equal its annual energy consumption.

Stanford reached peak greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 at over 200,000 metric tons per year, according to university officials, but has since dropped to less than 80,000.

The change is attributed to the Rosamond solar plant, which began operating in 2016.

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