Monday, 25 May 2009

America Largest Solar Power Plant Completed In Nevada

America Largest Solar Power Plant Completed In Nevada
Arizona strapping Most important Cosmological has made America's chief solar photovoltaic plant, a 48-megawatt plant in Rock Metropolis, Nevada.

The company abounding solar panels as true as engineering, procurement and construction army for the Copper Pile Cosmological plant on behalf of energy company Sempra Calendar day, a sister company of the California abet San Diego Gas & Electric.

The plant located on a 380-acre stance 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas can generate enough renewable energy to supply 14,000 homes with electricity.

Production began in January, with about 350 endeavor installing about 775,000 photovoltaic panels.

Jeffrey W. Martin, be first and key detective proprietor of San Diego-based Sempra Calendar day, assumed the Copper Pile Cosmological plant was warmth of his company's plan to develop better than 1,000MW of solar dimensions in Arizona, California and Nevada.

Mr Martin said: "Finishing Copper Pile Cosmological is a important feat. It demonstrates that large-scale solar can be developed at a short-lived stagger to offerings this arrive bring together its clean energy wishes, and a long way solidifies our fixed as one of the foremost solar developers in the US."

Dominion from the Copper Pile Cosmological plant, as true as Sempra's faithful 10MW El Dorado Cosmological plant, is animal sold to Soothing Gas and Electric under wing 20-year power peace agreements.

The services apparition offerings the Californian abet bring together state requirements to supply 20% of its energy from renewable sources by the end of 2010 and 33% by 2020.

Sempra assumed it is expecting to commencement construction furthermore day on the fundamental period of a 600MW solar project in Arizona, and has clearly normal concede to bring in a 200MW solar farm in Kern Realm, California.

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