250 Megawatts of Solar Power Coming to California
Fri, Mar 28, 2008
Southern California Edison, the main utility company for an area including San Diego and Los Angeles, announced Thursday that they plan to spend $875 Million to power over 162,000 homes.
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At least when the rest of us have succumbed to the resource wars, Ron Burgundy and Brad Pitt will still have power.
The project, which would be the largest solar farm in the U.S., will include cells covering nearly 65 Million Square Feet in an effort to meet a California mandate that 20% of the state’s power be from sustainable sources by 2010.
Despite the seemingly massive size of this project, however, it is still only going to be generating an output that is roughly half that of the average coal- or oil-fired power plant. The best news, perhaps, is that it will be able to be staged into action, unlike those carbon-spewing behemoths; the new plant will be coming online at a rate of one megawatt each week.
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
This is great. It’s probably the stirling engine farm. Much more efficient…
March 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Sounds good. But is it really that effective? There are 24,000,000 households in the UK alone.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Won’t help anything as the state government in California is pro-unlimited immigration from the Third World, just like the UK. What does it gain us to build renewable energy plants when our state is importing 500K new energy users every year?