25 Oct 10

After months of uncertainty, California will be the site of the world’s largest solar power plant, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today as he gave final approval for the 1 gigawatt Blythe Solar Power Project to be built on public land in the Mojave Desert.

“This is the kind of project that makes believers out of skeptics,” Salazar said at a press conference this afternoon.

I wrote this article for OnEarth magazine.. You can read the rest of it here.


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