While wind and solar sites may seem fairly obvious to most people, biomass and geothermal probably don't.

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The solar sites will also be near the canals.

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The council wants to build solar and wind parks at three sites it owns outside the city, near Newborough.

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Through the end of the first quarter of 2011, California had an estimated 924 megawatts of rooftop solar installed at nearly 95, 000 sites.

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States with the strongest projection for water-cooled concentrated solar power plants and capacity (more than 15 sites each) are California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

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Sunora also assembles the mounting equipment with solar panels from other suppliers before shipping them to construction sites.

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In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.

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Buckinghamshire has selected sites that are "low-risk" and has added solar road studs, extra signs and road markings.

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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.

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Wind and solar power also require huge amounts of land and expansive transmission lines to deliver electricity from remote sites.

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