Great week for clean, sustainable energy. Following the successful installation of the world's largest tidal turbine [1] system in Northern Ireland, the Mojave Desert is now poised to host the planet's largest solar array:
With California utilities expanding rapidly into renewables, the Mojave Desert is one of the hottest spots for solar energy. Last year, plans for the world’s largest solar array [2] got underway in this ideal energy harvesting setting and the latest news is just as groundbreaking. Pacific Gas and Electric [3] recently signed the world’s largest solar deal to date, teaming up with BrightSource Energy [4] to produce three new solar-thermal electric plants for a whopping 500 megawatts of clean green power. The $2 to $3 billion dollar deal provides options for additional plants (up to 900 megawatts total), which would be enough to power 375,000 Californian homes!
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More pics here [6] - purty damn cool, n'est pas?
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Links:
[1] http://www.enn.com/energy/article/34319
[2] http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/21/worlds-largest-solar-array-in-california/
[3] http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q2_2008/080401.shtml
[4] http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/
[5] http://www.thehindsightfactor.com/files/image_4_2.png
[6] http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/10/mojave-desert-solar-power-fields/
[7] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehindsightfactor.com%2Fmojave_desert_host_worlds_largest_solar_energy_array&linkname=Mojave%20desert%20to%20host%20world%27s%20largest%20solar%20energy%20array
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