900 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy projects in California have just been approved by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. 750 MW is from the McCoy Solar Energy Project and the other 150 MW are coming from the Desert Harvest Solar Farm. The two new utility-scale projects will … [continued]
A proposed “Solar Zone” could be coming to California, if the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has it’s way. According to PV-Tech, the US BLM just released its last Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed California Desert Conservation Plan Amendment, and suggested creating a solar zone in Imperial County, … [continued]
This week, the Obama Administration announced a plan that would allow access to public land in six US south-western states to speed up solar energy development, while still protecting environmentally sensitive land. The plan, according to the Department of Interior (DOI) news release, would cover 285,000 acres of public … [continued]
