Premier Alliance Group Inc. announced that its energy and sustainability division has been engaged by Manzana Energy Inc. to engineer and construct a 250 kilowatt photovoltaic solar project for the Border View Family YMCA in San Diego, California. The project, to be completed in 2013, represents $1.2 million in revenue to the company. Along with the electrical engineering and construction of the system, the company will manage all the permitting and complex utility interconnect guidelines associated with a solar project of this scale.

Once completed, the Border View Family YMCA will be able to take advantage of substantially discounted electricity rates while offering covered parking and convenient charging stations for patrons with plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The Border View Family YMCA is the newest of the YMCA's 25 facilities in San Diego County and will realize a savings of an estimated $1.3 million in energy costs over the 25-year lifetime of the power purchase agreement.