Construction is now under way on the world's biggest wind farm in California's Mojave Desert. Federal and state regulators have given the green light to several large solar thermal projects in the Mojave as well. “It's very significant. This is a potential project of 3,000 megawatts in scale. To put that in context, the state of California, today, in aggregate, has 2,700 megawatts of wind power capacity online,” said Ryan Wiser of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division. “So we're talking about the possibility of more than doubling that capacity with a single project.” More>
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Regulators Give Green Light to Solar, Wind Projects
Construction is now under way on the world's biggest wind farm in California's Mojave Desert. Federal and state regulators have given the green light to several large solar thermal projects in the Mojave as well. “It's very significant. This is a potential project of 3,000 megawatts in scale. To put that in context, the state of California, today, in aggregate, has 2,700 megawatts of wind power capacity online,” said Ryan Wiser of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division. “So we're talking about the possibility of more than doubling that capacity with a single project.” More>
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