A 13.94-acre RV and boat storage facility proposed for southwest Manteca will have 12 canopies with solar panels.

Gateway Solar RV & Boat Storage will have the ability to generate 3,000 kilowatts of electricity. That’s enough to power 400 average California homes.

The project is being built at the western end of Bronzan Road bordering the Oakwood Shores gated community on the west and the 120 Bypass on the north.

Bronzan Road is the first street that intersects with McKinley Avenue immediately south of its interchange with the 120 Bypass.

It is being reviewed by the Manteca Planning Commission on Thursday at 6 p.m.

The solar canopies will cover 299,884 square feet, an area just slightly larger that double the size of the Manteca Costco store.

There will also be a 2,326 square foot office building.

It will be Manteca’s second RV and boat storage facility with protective canopies with solar panels on top.

Manteca Executive RV & Boat Storage opened last year in southeast Manteca on the northeast corner of Atherton Drive and Woodward Avenue.

The complex can accommodate 532 recreational vehicles. The overall complex covers 13.68 acres.

It is a full service storage facility with a 2,400-square-foot office building, vehicle cleaning station, vehicle dumping station, plus propane and air filling stations, and even an ice machine.

That complex also has roughly 300,000 square feet of solar arrays.

As it stands now, it is the largest solar array in one location in Manteca.

Between the two projects, they will be able to store more than 1,000 boats and RCs.

An 884-unit storage complex is now being built in southwest Manteca within a mile of the Bronzan Road project on 5.64 acres abutting Bella Vista Drive with a 2,524-square-foot office building.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com