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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Report Shows the US has Nearly 200,000 GW of Solar Potential

Report Shows the US has Nearly 200,000 GW of Solar Potential

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a report titled US Renewable Energy Technical Potentials: A GIS-Based Analysis. As the title suggests, the report provides an in depth analysis of the renewable energy potential in the US.It shows that rural utility-scale photovoltaic solar farms could dominate the US energy mix in the future, with 153,000 GW of potential. Texas boasts 14% of the entire countries rural solar potential and about 20% of the concentrated solar power potential. The Lone Star State could change from a fossil…Read more...

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