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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Renewable energy: US takes new tack with 'solar energy zones'

Renewable energy: US takes new tack with 'solar energy zones'
Christian Science Monitor
That way, instead of approving such large renewable energy projects on a case-by-case basis where developers want to build them, the energy zones will guide development to areas that are high in solar energy, close to transmission lines, and have, in ...http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2012/1014/Renewable-energy-US-takes-new-tack-with-solar-energy-zones

Federal plan designed to create large solar energy plants

Los Angeles Times - ‎Oct 12, 2012‎
Federal plan designed to create large solar energy plants. Incentives to cluster projects on 285,000 acres of U.S. land in the West will be offered and an additional 19 million acres of the Mojave Desert opened for new facilities.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/13/local/la-me-1013-solar-zones-20121013

US Approves Plan for Solar Development Across West

MENAFN.COM -
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) The United States approved a plan Friday that sets aside 285,000 acres of public land in the West for the development of large-scale solar power plants. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the plan a ‚"roadmap ‚ that will ...

Idaho Bypassed In Creation of Western Solar Energy Zones

Boise Weekly (blog) -
While some wind developers have had a rocky year in their efforts to bring their brand of alternative energy onto the Western United States' energy grid, federal officials announced late on Oct. 12 that they want to streamline more solar development west of the ...http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2012/10/13/idaho-bypassed-in-creation-of-western-solar-energy-zones

New Obama Solar Energy Blueprint Paves Way for Additional 23.7 GW of Green ...

CleanTechnica - ‎Oct 13, 2012‎
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday announced a federal blueprint for large-scale solar power project developments spanning six Western states. The Obama Administration's Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) ...http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/13/new-obama-solar-energy-blueprint-paves-way-for-additional-23-7-gw-of-green-power/

SEIA and LSA Statement on Dept. of the Interior's Record of Decision on the ...

Melodika.net (press release) - ‎Oct 12, 2012‎
Saturday, 13 October 2012. Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-scale Solar Association (LSA), released the following statement today in response to the ...http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427883&Itemid=55

DOI, DOE launch Solar Energy Zones on federally managed land

Clean Energy Authority - ‎Oct 12, 2012‎
A large solar installation Today the Departments of Energy and Interior (DOE and DOI, respectively) launched Solar Energy Zones on public lands in the U.S. West. The zones are part of the Obama Administration's plans to make it easier for companies to ...http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/doi-doe-launch-solar-energy-zones-101212

Interior Department Rolls Out New Solar Program

Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) - ‎Oct 12, 2012‎
New Solar Program is Historical by Embracing a Landscape Approach to Energy Development. Turtle Mountain Wilderness - adjacent to the eliminated Iron Mountain solar zone (photo credit: Turtle Mountain Wilderness, which is adjacent to the now ...http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bmcenaney/interior_department.html

Interior to fast-track solar projects on public lands

The Hill (blog) - ‎Oct 12, 2012‎
The Obama administration finalized a program Friday to fast-track solar energy projects on public lands in six Western states. The Interior Department set aside about 285,000 acres for commercial-scale solar in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New ...http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/261779-interior-finalizes-plan-to-develop-solar-on-public-lands


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