It appears that the US is moving ahead full steam with the introduction of new solar power plants. This is great news for the possibility of reducing the amount of electricity that comes from fossil fuel powered sources.
The large solar power plants, and they are generally the concentrating solar power plants, have been gaining approval by the US government and with the economic stimulus benefits in place until the end of 2010 there is a lot of motivation for these projects to begin before the end of the year.
And why not? Let’s see if we can rid ourselves of the polluting power plants once and for all and move ahead with producing clean energy from solar power. By the way, the arguments that solar also produces certain pollutants simply does not stack up when compared to the belching fumes that have been allowed to be released into the atmosphere for many years.
The Mojave Desert is the new location for what will become one of the largest solar power plants in operation. The Blythe Solar Power Project will have a maximum generating capacity of 1,000MW when it is completed some time in 2013. That’s definitely going to create some opportunities in the state to reduce the carbon output.
So there will soon be more solar power plants dotted around the country. Particularly when you consider that the Blythe project is only one of seven new developments that are going to be soon brought online.
