US approve world's largest solar project

Tue, 26 Oct 2010

Washington - The United States on Monday approved the largest solar plant ever to be built, the Department of the Interior said.

The Blythe Solar Power Project is to be built by German company Solar Millennium AG on US government land in the Mojave Desert in south-eastern California near the Arizona border.

It will produce an estimated 1,000 megawatts of solar power - enough for 300,000 to 750,000 homes, the department said.

"The Blythe Solar Power Project is a major milestone in our nation's renewable energy economy and shows that the United States intends to compete and lead in the technologies of the future," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

Solar Millennium has the right to use the land for 30 years under an arrangement approved by Salazar Monday. The government has approved five similar projects on federal land in recent weeks in California and Nevada, but none as large as this one.

The company has said it hopes to start construction by the end of the year.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/350378,worlds-largest-solar-project.html.