ELLENSBURG, Wash. - If you live on the Eastside or in many other parts of Western Washington, the sun may be directly powering your TV in just a few weeks.

Puget Sound Energy is embarking on a large utility scale solar experiment at its Wild Horse Wind Farm near Ellensburg, Wash.

PSE customers will use the solar power to heat coffee, run the vacuum, and power the new HD-TV. PSE calls it the largest solar array in the Northwest.

"Each of these panels is about 187 watts," says Paul Wiegand, vice president for Power Generation, about his equipment.

That's about a car battery's worth out of every small panel. Contractors are assembling some 2,500 of them. 

When this solar array goes online by the middle of October, it will generate enough electricity to power 300 homes. And this could just be the beginning.

Puget Sound Energy gets its electricity from a variety of sources that include contracts with Hydro Power Plants on the Columbia, BPA and coal plants in Montana.

Wind power was once considered experimental, but no more. And the Wild Horse Wind Farm is good fit for trying it out. When Western Washington is blanketed under clouds and rain, things in Kittitas county things are a lot different. 

"The sun shines a lot here," Wiegand said. "It has the same solar quality of Houston Texas. It's much different than Western Washington."