Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: March 17, 2010

First Solar Developing 550MW Solar Project in California Chevron to Build 1MW CPV Plant in New Mexico Interior Dept: $3.7M to 13 Tribes for Renewable Energy Utilities in California, Ohio Test Energy Storage FTC Proposes EnergyGuide Labels on TVs Poll Finds Clean Energy, not Efficiency is Solution to Energy, Climate Woes First Solar Developing a 550 MW Solar Project in California On March 9, First Solar announced a power purchase agreement to supply California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) with 300 MW of renewable energy from Desert Sunlight, a 550 MW utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar facility the company is developing in Southern California. The other 250 MW portion of the project is already under contract to Southern California Edison (SCE). The facility, near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County, California, will produce enough power for about 160,000 homes, using the company’s thin-film PV modules made from cadmium telluride. The Bureau of Land Management fast tracked the project’s permit application – First Solar plans to break ground this year and to complete it as early as 2013. First Solar recently completed the largest PV project in the state, and the second largest in the country, a 21 MW power plant […]

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