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From the Los Angeles TimesPalmdale airport land may become a solar farmProposal could give L.A. a major source of renewable energy, but would face obstacles.
By Dan Weikel and David Zahniser
February 23, 2009
After buying 17,750 acres in Palmdale for an intercontinental jetport that has not gotten off the ground, Los Angeles airport officials say they might finally have a use for much of the property: a solar power facility capable of generating up to 100 megawatts of clean energy.
If approved, the project would help Los Angeles comply with a major portion of Measure B, a local proposition on the March 3 ballot that would require the city to generate 400 megawatts of electricity from solar installations by 2014.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is eyeing about 4,000 largely undeveloped acres of Palmdale airport property, a site that could achieve 25% of the goal of Measure B at a single location, assuming city voters pass it. The balance of the requirement would probably come from smaller locations across the city, including rooftops and parking lots.
DWP general manager H. David Nahai said Palmdale is not crucial to fulfilling the terms of Measure B. Still, if Los Angeles could place a solar farm on the high desert property, "it would be like having the city's own power plant," he said.
"Who would say no to that?" Nahai said.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-solar23-2009feb23,0,7588533.story">Los Angeles Times">Full text of Measure B
Pro-Measure B webtube:
http://greenenergygoodjobsla.com">Green Energy Good Jobs LA
Anti-Measure B webtube:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vote no on measure b los angeles">No on B
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