U.S. Senators Consider Solar Energy’s Role

Touting utility-scale solar installations, like in California, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar told the Senate Environment Public Works Committee January 28 that both large-scale and rooftop photovoltaics are in the nation’s near future. “It’s not pie-in-the-sky stuff,” Salazar said. “I’d show you the California plant” producing tens of megawatts of solar power, he added. He reported that the Bureau of Land Management expects to permit 13 projects by December that would account for 4,567 MW and 40,000 jobs. Salazar also supported solar as a method to conserve water that would otherwise be used to cool fossil fuel-fired power plants. “The impact on the water supply is huge--in the billions of dollars in the West alone,” Salazar claimed.

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