It’s Solar Energy Vs. The Cows As Public Lands Battle Heats Up
A high tech range war for the 21st century: solar energy developers could crowd out cattle ranchers from public lands in western states.
A high tech range war for the 21st century: solar energy developers could crowd out cattle ranchers from public lands in western states (image courtesy of US Department of Energy).
A high tech range war for the 21st century: solar energy developers could crowd out cattle ranchers from public lands in western states.
Here’s how renewable energy contracts work to protect ratepayers, utilities, and renewable energy developers through the power purchase agreement (PPA):
At a wind farm near Palm Springs yesterday, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented the department’s long-awaited plans for both multi-energy renewables development and conservation within 22.5 million acres of the Mojave and other Southern California deserts. More than half the land lies within San Bernardino County. The … [continued]
Desert lands in solar-rich Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will not just supply our nation with abundant, clean, safe, fuel-free solar power – but will also generate very good financial returns for the benefit of the public good nationwide, under a new fee schedule the Bureau of … [continued]