Work starts on solar power generator (AP/Boston.com)

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April 23, 2007

LAS VEGAS --Officials on Monday marked the start of construction on a solar power generation station designed to provide about a quarter of the electricity needed by Nellis Air Force Base.

The project, called Solar Star, was being promoted as the country's largest photo voltaic solar project.

San Francisco-based MMA Renewable Ventures is leasing 140 acres on the western edge of the base north of Las Vegas, where the $100 million-plus project will be built by San Jose, Calif.-based SunPower Corp.

Plans call for installing some 70,000 solar panels by next year, generating up 15 megawatts of electricity, or about enough to supply about 11,000 Las Vegas-area homes.

Nellis plans to buy power from the project at an estimated savings of $1 million a year, compared with buying electricity from the main local electric utility, Nevada Power Co.
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1. Another in Boulder City

Although it would seem like some of this money might be more efficiently used to retro-fit homes at the same time.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6166113.html