Gov. Brian Sandoval visits Boulder City solar array, suggests lease revenue could ease state deficit

[Snoutport]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Developed by Sempra Generation, the solar plant stretches across 380 acres of desert and includes 775,000 photovoltaic panels, enough to power 14,000 homes. It went online at the end of last year.

The project has been a boon for Boulder City, which is leasing land to Sempra for tens of millions of dollars -- a fact Sandoval noted.

"Maybe you can share a little bit of that with the state?" Sandoval suggested to Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/18/gov-brian-sandoval-visits-boulder-city-solar-array/

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What?! Solar power makes American jobs and brings millions in income to American cities??! But the Republicans say we have to use coal, oil and atomic instead...

[davidinalameda]

1. I hope they told him to piss off

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. 380 acres, three quarters of a million panels, to power 14,000 homes?

Concentrating solar has to be a better bet than PV for this kind of deployment.

[Snoutport]

4. i wonder how many acres

used for coal or natural gas...when you figure in how many acres a wellsite is, coalyards, gas storage tanks, etc. who knows...might be similar!

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Too many!

[Finishline42]

6. RE: But the Republicans say we have to use coal, oil and atomic instead...

Repubs are on a crusade on the unfunded liabilities of SS and Medicare - what about the unfunded liabilities in nuclear waste and dealing with nuclear power plants that reach the end of the useful life? Or the hundreds of coal plant waste ponds? If those costs were figured into the cost of coal or nuclear power generation, solar and wind would win hands down.

[Snoutport]

7. If california and nevada put in the solar panels it would save their economies!

They could be producing a huge portion of the country's energy. Has anyone ever seen those numbers?