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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The biggest photovoltaic solar
panel array in the United States opened this week at a U.S. Air
force base in Nevada and the biggest array that sells power to
an electric utility began operation in Colorado, companies
involved said. A 14-megawatt solar farm covering 140 acres opened at
Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday. It will
generate 30,000 megawatt hours a year and will supply about a
quarter of the electricity used at the air base. About 12,000
people live and work on There are bigger solar farms in the United States, but they
are concentrated solar thermal projects that use mirrors to
heat water rather than to use panels to convert sunlight to
electricity.
The Alamoso solar project in the southern part of central
Colorado, near the border with New Mexico, will generate about
17,000 megawatt hours each year, enough no-emissions power to
serve about 1,500 homes.
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