Silicon Valley Power (SVP) is a not-for-profit municipal electric utility owned and operated by the City of Santa Clara, California, United States.
SVP provides electricity service to approximately 55,116 residential and business customers, including large corporations such as Intel, Applied Materials, Owens Corning and NVIDIA.
In 1968, Santa Clara became a founding member of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) to work with other municipal electric utilities to jointly develop cost-effective energy sources.
Subsequent efforts to expand and diversify its electricity supply led to the construction of the Donald Von Raesfeld combined cycle natural gas plant (2005), various partnerships in wind and hydroelectric generation sources,[5] and 25 percent ownership of the Lodi Energy Center combined cycle natural gas plant (2012).
[citation needed] In 2017, the SVP power mix consisted of 38% from eligible renewable resources as defined by the California Energy Commission, 34% from large hydroelectric, 16% from natural gas, 9% from coal, and 3% from unspecified sources.
Joint Power Agencies (JPA) of which SVP is a member include the NCPA (hydroelectric, natural gas, and geothermal projects) and M-S-R (coal and wind).