Prologis, Southern California Edison and Kimberly-Clark Corporation recently announced that Kimberly-Clark's Redlands, California, facility will be the home to one of the largest single rooftop solar power installations in the country.

"Kimberly-Clark's commitment to sustainability includes finding more ways to promote the use of renewable energy, including utilizing available rooftop space," said Suhas Apte, vice president of global sustainability at Kimberly-Clark.

Kimberly-Clark is adding to a preexisting rooftop solar installation at the facility, which covers 350,000 square feet and can produce up to 6.6 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy each year.

The expanded rooftop installation is expected to offset approximately 4,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually, while also providing enough energy to power 925 households in southern California per year.

With the growing amount of rooftop solar installations in California, the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded the California Center for Sustainable Energy a grant of $700,000 in an effort to standardize rooftop solar installations in the state, reported the San Diego Business Journal.