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The Copper Mountain Solar Facility is a 48 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, Nevada.[1] Sempra Generation began construction of the plant in January 2010 and on December 1, 2010, the company announced that it had finished the project and the facility was now generating electricity. At its construction peak more than 350 workers were installing the 775,000 First Solar panels on the 380 acre site.[1]
The power from Copper Mountain Solar Facility (and the adjacent 10 MW El Dorado Solar Power Plant) has been sold to Pacific Gas & Electric under separate 20-year contracts. Californian utilities are required to obtain 20 percent of their energy supply from renewable sources by the end of 2010, increasing to 33 percent by 2020.[1]
See also
- List of photovoltaic power stations
- Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
- Solar power in Nevada
- Renewable energy in the United States
References
- ^ a b c America's Largest PV Power Plant Is Now Live (December 6, 2010), Renewable Energy World.
