In the meantime, projects like the Antelope Valley school district carry with them a glimmer of hope.
The Antelope Valley Solar Projects will sell power to Southern California Edison under long-term power purchase contracts.
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The bulk of the crew from the Antelope Valley project is now working on a 19-site project for the Palmdale school district right next door.
The mother and daughter live a mile from each other in the Antelope Valley town of Rosamond, where they like to joke that nothing ever happens.
Blowing dust forced the California Highway Patrol to close state Route 14 in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles due to low visibility.
"Exelon remains committed to Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One and expects to receive the initial loan advance upon resolution of the construction-permit issue, " said Exelon spokesman Paul Elsberg.
The adjacent Antelope Valley Solar Projects will be built in Los Angeles and Kern counties and will generate 579 megawatts of electricity for utility Southern California Edison.
Antelope Valley is one of several clean-technology projects that haven't yet received any payments from the federal government under a loan-guarantee program that closed all deals more than four months ago.
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo made his remarks after a service at Oasis Christian Church of Antelope Valley in Lancaster, California, near the family's Palmdale home about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
PsomasFMG just completed work on what is currently the largest operating solar school project in the country, a 9.6 megawatt installation across 10 school sites within the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
The bank will open seven of the 28 centers in California including locations in greater Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, the Antelope Valley and the northern and southern San Joaquin Valley.
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At the recent groundbreaking for a test track in the hardscrabble Antelope Valley of the Mojave Desert, Chairman Chung and several other executives, including O'Neill, held shovels over a trough of dirt for photographers.
The Antelope Valley district also moved quickly to grab the California solar rebate at a time when it was 22 cents per kilowatt hour (it has since dwindled to about 9 cents), and PsomasFMG helped them get their system installed and operational within 18 months.
First Solar shares, which took a big hit last week on news that the Department of Energy was holding back loans it has expected to received to complete a large solar facility in Antelope Valley, California that the company is building for Exelon, continues to lose ground Monday morning.
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They followed the herd for days, and eventually emerged into a broad valley filled with hundreds of antelope, some already giving birth.
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