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Massive Solar Power Plant Being Built



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The solar power plant in Boulder City, Nevada is one of the largest to be built in the last 15 years.

The huge 64MW solar power plant will generate enough energy to meet the electricity needs of around 40,000 households and follows in the footsteps of the 354MW solar plants located in California’s Mojave Desert.



Although the Californian solar plants have generated billions of kilowatt hours of electricity for the past two decades, the Nevada Solar One plant will use new technologies to capture even more energy from the sun.

Not to be outdone, the Californians are to meet the daytime electricity needs of 300,000 homes by building an even larger plant which will cover four square miles of the Mojave Desert near Victorville, California and use 20,000 solar dishes.

High energy prices and volatile world markets have triggered increased interest in solar energy.

Solar energy is considered 'green' because they produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists cite as a contributing factor to climate change.

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