Obama’s New Solar, Wind Push: Super Fast-Track?

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Three of the projects, however, have full-approval target dates of this December. They’re all solar projects, two of them in Riverside County, Calif., headed up by NextEra’s McCoy Solar Energy. This is a huge photovoltaic project; at 750 MW it’s bigger than the 550-MW Topaz Solar Farm now under construction in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.

copper mountain solar

image via the White House

McCoy would take up 7,700 acres of BLM land, plus 470 acres of private land, and would require a 16-mile transmission line to connect to Southern California Edison’s Colorado River substation. A draft environmental impact statement has been published for the project, with a public comment period running through the 23rd of this month.

The second Riverside County solar project is enXco’s Desert Harvest installation, and the last of the three projects with 2012 approval targets is Quartzside Solar Energy, a 100-MW concentrating solar project in La Paz County, Arizona.

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Posted on August 8th, 2012 · Comment ↓

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  • http://twitter.com/tamikenn57 Tami Kennedy

    I still label it political campaign talk, maybe PCT over PTC. He does not have sufficient leadership to achieve government consensus. Natural gas as a climate solution is higher on his priority list.

    • Pete

      You’re not impressed that the administration has approved more utility-scale energy projects in three years than were approved in the two preceding decades? The announcement was definitely campaign talk, but it was possible because of a real and quite staggering record of achievement on this front.