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USA govt backs big solar and wind projects

Big Solar, Wind Projects Backed By U.S.  Earth Techling, by Pete Danko, July 18th, 2011 @…All told, the projects will provide 550 megawatts (MW) of new electrical generation capacity, enough juice to power 185,000 to 380,000 homes, DOI said. The deparment also promoted the job-creating benefits the projects will yield: more than 1,300 construction jobs.

Continuing the Obama administration’s push for big renewable energy development, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar has approved a batch of projects on public lands –  two utility-scale solar power plants in California, a wind energy plant in Oregon, and a transmission line in Southern California that’s needed to tie nine planned solar plants to the grid…..http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/07/big-solar-wind-projects-backed-by-u-s/

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July 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, USA