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Solar on a large scale

U.S. utility-scale market: In the United States, solar is very much shaped by how business is done in the conventional power market: large-scale and utility-oriented. A report on support mechanisms and PV development in the USA.

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Eckhart Gouras

29 Sep 2011

On August 18, 2011 Solar Millennium and its U.S. subsidiary Solar Trust of America surprised the solar community by announcing a shift from solar thermal to photovoltaic (PV) technology for the first 500-megawatt phase of its one-gigawatt Blythe Solar Power Project. This very large-scale solar power plant in Blythe, California, was supposed to be a …

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