Wired News: Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert

Wired News: Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert:

"Stirling Energy Systems is planning to build two separate solar farms, one with the capacity to generate 500 megawatts of electricity in the Mojave Desert near Victorville, California, for SoCal Edison, and a 300-megawatt plant in the Imperial Valley, near Calexico, California, for SDG&E. The utilities have signed 20-year deals to buy all the juice the farms can turn out, and have options to expand the plants if they are successful.

'Without question, this will be the largest solar project in the world,' said Gil Alexander, a spokesman for SoCal Edison. 'It will be bigger than all U.S. solar-energy projects combined.'"