The Army intends to build a 500mw solar plant at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.
Last time I was here, in fact, I went to see a huge solar plant, solar energy plant.
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This is the largest solar plant of its kind anywhere in the country.
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The proposed solar plant would offer 10GW of installed power by 2050.
And when a business showed up with plans to build a new solar plant, hundreds of local workers got jobs because of it.
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On Tuesday San Diego-based Borrego Solar Systems announced the completion of a 3.4 megawatt solar plant at Edwards Air Force base, which is located near Lancaster, California.
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Effectively they will be guaranteeing loans for a solar power plant in Arizona to be developed by Abengoa Solar, and for a solar production plant in Colorado to be built by Abound Solar.
On their own, the opening of this new solar plant or the installation of new smart meters or the investment in grid modernization will not be enough to meet the challenges posed by our dependence on fossil fuels.
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In 2012, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Defenders of Wildlife also filed suit to stop another 663 megawatt 4, 600-acre Calico solar plant to be built on 7.2 square miles in the Mohave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.
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The U.S. Air Force is supporting development of the largest North American solar plant to provide electricity for the Nellis Air Force Base located outside Las Vegas which covers 140 acres of the Nevada desert with massive photovoltaic arrays that track the sun.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) agreed to purchase all of the electricity generated by the K Road Moapa Solar plant, a 250-megawatt project slated to be built on the Moapa River Paiute Reservation, located northeast of Las Vegas.
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In the West, Xcel Energy (nyse: XEL - news - people ) last month issued requests for proposals to expand its wind facilities in Minnesota, and the company recently announced plans to build the largest solar plant in the United States in Colorado.
Higgins intends to attach to the line 200 megawatts (peak output) of windmills, ostensibly generating electricity at a cost of 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, and has contracted to buy all the output of a 65-megawatt solar plant that would be an eco-loss-leader costing 25 cents per kwh.
Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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Plans have been drawn up to bring a "community-owned" solar power plant to a Somerset village.
One early QBotix customer is Sol Orchard, a solar power plant developer based in Carmel, Calif.
When fully operational, the solar power plant will help California achieve its 33% renewable portfolio standard.
SunPower will continue to develop the project, and will design, build, operate and maintain the solar power plant.
We also visited a solar heating plant in the village of Vollerup.
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GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.
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Earlier this month, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit inaugurated the first solar thermal plant in the Kanchanaburi province of Thailand.
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This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.
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Currently there are ways for solar power plant owners to crunch numbers to project how much electricity their power plants might generate year after year.
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Nanosolar announced Thursday that it had signed contracts to supply up to one gigawatt of its thin-film photovoltaic panels to European solar power plant builders over the next three to six years.
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The solar power plant is expected to create approximately 350 jobs during construction, will power about 100, 000 homes and will be one of the largest photovoltaic solar power plants in the world, when complete.
In other green energy news, Nicaragua announced plans to produce 94 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2017 and South America's first solar thermal plant recently opened in Antofagasta, Chile.
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And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.
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We are delighted to have found in NRG a partner that shares our vision to build a solar power plant in San Luis Obispo County that enhances the local economy, protects local habitat and generates emission-free solar power for California.
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