Official flips switch on solar plant near Vegas

By Ken Ritter

Associated Press

Published: Monday, May 7 2012 2:30 p.m. MDT

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The first commercial solar array approved and built on federal public land began producing electricity Monday from a sun-baked site in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line.

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Allisdair

Thornbury, Vic

It is exciting to see the albeit slow move to a sustainable non carbon ecconomy. There are other plants including the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) located at Daggett which is up and running. The Solana Generating Station is a 280 MW solar More..

5:31 p.m. May 7, 2012
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Hellooo

Salt Lake City, UT

These projects are great, but please they are not base load plants, which they can not replace and their price per kilowatt is more than 3x that of carbon based power. Another example of the Obama administration's forced effort to establish an More..

9:27 p.m. May 7, 2012
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raybies

Layton, UT

I can think of no better use for the state of Nevada than to turn it all into one big solar collector... buwahahaha!

3:05 p.m. May 7, 2012
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