New Arlington Valley solar site packs power (127 MW, AZ)

[jpak]

http://www.azcentral.com/business/arizonaeconomy/articles/20130501new-arlington-valley-solar-site-packs-power.html

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The $500 million Arlington Valley Solar Energy II project will be among the largest solar plants in the world when finished this year. It has about 400 construction workers finishing the project south of Interstate 10 and west of Arizona 85.

The project adds to Arizona’s large list of solar-power plants. If it were complete today, it would be among the 10 largest in the world. It will have 127 megawatts of capacity when finished. One megawatt is enough electricity to supply about 250 Arizona homes at once, when the sun is shining on the solar panels.

The largest in the world — the Agua Caliente Solar Project — is not far away, near Yuma, and still under construction.

Agua Caliente is being built by Tempe-based First Solar Inc. It already has 250 megawatts of capacity sending power to the grid and will have 290 when it is finished. However, other plants under development will continue to alter the list, including a 550-megawatt project First Solar is building in California.

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[ramakrishna]

1. Solar power to rule the world

WOW So US gona have Three Largest solar power plants once Arlington plant & CA's 550MW finishes its construction. Good to see Many solar & wind projects are happening around the world, and the 550MW plant in CA will top the list after completion. Coming to Agua Caliente Solar Project I read here that " The Agua Caliente solar farm will generate enough electricity to serve around 225,000 average homes and will reduce 5.5 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually." 5.5 million metric tones of CO2, thats huge amount. Recently there were some reports where it mentioned how Europe was affected with coal plants which emits CO2 and pollutes the air. Several thousands of people died due to this Air pollution. Really I love renewable energy which wont pollutes the environment rather generates clean energy.