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US Military Installs 500 MW Solar Plant

The U.S. military is tackling a new mission in the field of alternative energy, moving to power up a 500-megawatt solar facility at Fort Irwin’s sprawling desert complex in California. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched its first phase of the project on October 15th, 2009. The project, located at the Army’s largest training range in California’s Mojave Desert, could grow as large as 1 GW in the future. The companies will finance and build the plant in... Read More