Avangrid, Inc., a member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced that it had achieved commercial operations at two new solar projects in Wasco County, Oregon—Daybreak Solar and Bakeoven Solar. The projects has begun delivering electricity to the Portland General Electric grid through the Green Future Impact program. The adjacent projects provided with combined capacity of 269 MW (DC) using about 650,000 solar panels and were expected to generate hundreds of gigawatt-hours of electricity annually to support commercial and industrial demand. Construction supported more than 300 jobs, largely filled by local union labor. Avangrid estimated the projects would generate around $40 million in tax revenue over their lifetime and support permanent operations and maintenance jobs. The facilities marked the first commercial-scale solar projects in Wasco County, supplied electricity to large customers such as Intel.