Dec 31 2008
How to Speed Up Solar Power
On December 22, as my colleague Jennifer Zerwer previously noted, Sempra Generation announced completion of its first 10 megawatt photovoltaic power plant near Boulder City, Nevada, the largest of its kind in North America. PG&E has contracted to buy its power for 20 years.
Built in less than six months by Arizona-based First Solar, the project is certainly the fastest utility-scale solar project ever to come online for PG&E. (I can say that with some assurance, since to date it's the only large solar project in our portfolio to start generating power.)
But fast is all relative. If you really want FAST, check out this video clip showing all manner of ground and aerial views of the plant. At the end, you'll see the entire six months of construction compressed into about 25 seconds, thanks to the magic of time-lapse photography. Now if we could just get every project to move this quickly . . .
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