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March 13, 2008
Arizona to Host World's Largest Solar Power Plant
A Lakewood company announced in February it plans to build the
largest solar power plant in the world. The solar plant would
open in 2011 about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.
Abengoa Solar announced it has reached a
preliminary agreement with Arizona Public Service Company in Phoenix
to purchase electricity from the plant for 30 years, an agreement
worth $4 billion. You can read an article about the announcement
published in the February 21 edition of the Denver Business Journal.
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/02/18/daily39.html
Abengoa Solar in Lakewood is a subsidiary of
Abengoa S.A., a multinational construction conglomerate based in
Spain that builds solar power plants and bioenergy facilities
worldwide. The company issued a press release in Madrid on
February 21 saying that their construction plans are contingent on
Congress extending long-term the investment tax credits for solar
energy.
The same day, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano
said in a news release, "This is a major milestone for Arizona in
our efforts to increase the amount of renewable energy available in
the United States."
The Abengoa concentrating solar plant will use
trough solar collectors to concentrate the sun's energy on a tube,
collect the heat, and generate electricity with a conventional steam
turbine. For more about the plant and an update of other solar
installations in Arizona, see a February 27 news article published
by the U.S. Department of Energy.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/states/state_news_detail.cfm/news_id=11606
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