Feds Identify Hot Spot Solar Zones

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The U.S. Departments of Energy and the Interior have jointly announced they've identified 'solar zones' in six western states ideal for large-scale solar. Read more →

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Feds Want Quicker Offshore Wind Process

Offshore wind power

Interior Secretary Salazar pushes a new initiative that will speed siting, leasing and development of offshore wind power off the Atlantic Coast. Read more →

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Nevada Gets 500 More MW Of Solar Energy

Solar Millennium parabolic trough power plant

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar okays a 500-megawatt solar plant in Nevada, making eight such approvals since October out of a goal of 13 by the end of 2010. Read more →

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250 MW California Solar Plant Approved

The federal government has signed off on another large scale solar plant on public lands in California as it moves to up the nation's clean energy portfolio. Read more →

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Major Nevada Clean Power Corridor Begins

One Nevada Transmission Line

The One Nevada (ON) Transmission Line, designed to transmit renewable energy, is being built along a 235 mile corridor in the West. Read more →

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1,000 MW Solar Project Gets Final Nod

The largest solar project ever on public lands, known as the Blythe Solar Power Project, has gotten final sign off to be built in California. Read more →

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Fifth Solar Plant On U.S. Land Approved

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Interior's Salazar signs off on Calico, in the Mojave Desert outside Barstow, bringing to five the solar projects approved on U.S. public lands. Read more →

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50 MW Nevada Solar Project Signed Off On

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The Interior Department, after approving a trio of large-scale solar plants on federal lands in California, has now OK'd the first such project in Nevada. Read more →

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Cape Wind Offshore Project Scores Lease

The U.S. Department of the Interior has inked a lease for the area to house the 468-megawatt Cape Wind offshore wind farm project near Massachusetts. Read more →

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Feds Give Cali 2 Shiny New Solar Plants

The U.S. Department of the Interior approves two massive solar plants on public lands in California, bringing to that state up to 754 MW of clean solar power. Read more →

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