Solar build picks up steam as construction starts on third big project since November

摘要

A groundbreaking in Blythe, California, Friday that was tonfeature the secretary of the Interior launched construction ofnwhat could become the world’s largest solar facility. What thenevent marked just as notably was the start of physical work onnElectric Utility Week June 20, 2011n21 Copyright © 2011 The McGraw-Hill Companiesnthe third utility-scale solar facility in the California and southwestnArizona desert region in the past eight months.nSolar Trust of America broke ground on its 500-MW PhasenI and Phase II parabolic trough Blythe Solar Project at a sitenjust north of Interstate 10, roughly a dozen miles west of thenCalifornia border with Arizona.