Yesterday, The United States Department of the Interior approved plans for the world’s largest solar energy project. The $1 billion Blythe Solar Power Project will consist of four massive plants built on public lands in the southern California’s Mojave desert.
“When completed the project is expected to generate up to 1,000 Megawatts
of energy…” commented Interior Department secretary Ken Salazar. “That’s enough electricity to power up to 750,000 average American homes
and to make Blythe the largest solar power plant facility in the world.”
The plant is being developed by private German-based company, Solar Millennium. According to the company, the plant will has the potential output of one nuclear-power plant or a large modern coal-fired facility.
The Blythe announcement follows a parade of high-employing renewable energy projects. Two weeks ago Salazar inaugurated the world’s largest wind tower manufacturing plant in Colorado, and a week before that signed a lease for the first major offshore windfarm off the coast of New Jersey.
via PhysOrg
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