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FORMER Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made his way to a remote desert location last October, near Interstate 15 between Southern California and Las Vegas. So did U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and bunches of utility executives. All pronounced themselves thrilled to mark what they called a landmark advance in energy, the start of work on a huge solar power farm that will help meet the state's goal of producing one-third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
The project, on a site near the Mojave Desert's Ivanpah dry lake, is the second-largest of six solar thermal energy projects Salazar has greenlighted that will use about 12,000 acres of federal land for 30 years or more. The largest is eight miles west of Blythe, near the Arizona border and a bit closer to Los Angeles. It was greenlighted three weeks after Ivanpah.See the full content of this document
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Why Solar Is Headed in Wrong Direction
These two big projects will generate about 1,000 new jobs, making them a significant component of the "green" job growth counted on by current Gov. Jerry Brown. When finished, they will pr...
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