Solar Power Plants

We Need All Forms of Solar, From Rooftops to Public Lands

Rhone Resch | Posted 07.28.2011

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Rhone Resch

In the next few years, we will overtake Germany as the largest solar market in the world, installing enough new capacity to power 2 million new homes each and every year by 2015.

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Solar Power Plant Planned For Chicago

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Exelon Corp. has announced plans to build a solar power plant on Chicago's South Side. However, officials said the plan is contingent...

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Solar for the South Side: A 'Can Do' Plan for Urban Solar Array in Chicago?

Henry Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henry Henderson

The plan to install 32,800 panels in a former industrial site on Chicago's South Side would amount to the largest solar power project in an American urban center.

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California Mandates Spur Solar Plants That Will Dwarf Current Largest

New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Companies will build two solar power plants in California that together will put out more than 12 times as much electricity as the largest such plant ...

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