Green ... but maybe not clean: Nevada desert town fights to keep solar company out

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PAHRUMP, Nev. — Just minutes from the California border sits a sun-drenched town in Nevada that wants nothing to do with its neighbor to the west.

Located about 60 miles from Las Vegas, Pahrump was once home to the Southern Paiute Indians and didn’t install telephone service until the 1960s. Many current residents moved to the unincorporated town to get away from the traffic and pollution that plague much of California.

Residents now find themselves at odds with Candela Renewables, a San Francisco-based renewable energy company that hopes to build a large-scale solar field across some 2,300 acres.

“It seems illogical to me to destroy the environment to protect the environment,” said Pahrump resident Jeannie Cox-King, who helped organize a protest Saturday against the Rough Hat Nye County solar field. “We should keep our public lands public.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/green-but-maybe-not-clean-nevada-desert-town-fights-to-keep-solar-company-out/ar-AARfMJ8

[Budi]

1. Jan 2021. Candela Renewable partnered with a multi-national energy group in Spain

Candela Renewables today announced a partnership with Naturgy Energy Group, a multinational energy company based in Spain, which includes the acquisition of a development pipeline of 3.2 GW utility scale solar projects and 2 GW of co-located energy storage projects.
This pipeline includes 340 MWAC of solar and 50 MWAC / 200 MWh of co-located storage with executed or awarded PPAs across 3 projects and an additional 260 MWAC shortlisted or in bilateral negotiations. Prior to the transaction, Candela had been developing projects for this pipeline for 2.5 years.

The partnership between Candela and Naturgy includes the formation of a new entity to own the pipeline and the execution of a five-year Development Services Agreement for Candela to continue developing the projects across the U.S., bringing Naturgy’s over 175 years of expertise and multinational scale to the U.S. renewable energy space.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210119005093/en/Candela-Renewables-Completes-Capital-Raise-Partners-with-Naturgy-Energy-Group

Spain's Naturgy nears deal to buy U.S. solar firm Candela Renewables -sources
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL8N2JO5K9

They're also in Texas
Google signs PPA with Candela Renewables for new 140-MW Texas solar project
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/08/google-signs-ppa-candela-renewables-new-140-mw-texas-solar-project/

[LT Barclay]

2. They could get help fighting this from numerous environmental groups.

There is no reason to place it there when they could cover every rooftop in Vegas with solar.

[hunter]

3. Destroying previously undeveloped land in this way is despicable.

The people profiting from this crap won't be the ones restoring the land when these projects fail.

There's no shortage of land that's been destroyed by suburban development, parking lots, farms that failed for lack of water, strip mines, etc.. Put the solar panels there.