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To: longnshort who wrote (10763)	7/6/2009 6:09:21 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) of 86355

Nope. They are fast tracking it. It will be complete by the end of 2010 and will unleash a massive amount of solar projects in our western deserts. Feds Propose 24 Solar Energy Zones solarfeeds.com The federal government is proposing to set aside 670,000 acres on public land and divide them into 24 energy zones to speed up solar energy development, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Monday. The energy zones are located on land overseen by the federal Bureau of Land Management in six western states: California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The zones would be suitable for projects at 10 megawatts or larger, the interior department said...Together, the zones could accommodate solar farms with a total of nearly 100 gigawatts in generation capacity. [That's enough to power 29 million homes or 18% of the 160 million homes in the US] The BLM plans to carry out the environmental impact analyses of the 24 zones to see if they would be suitable for large-scale solar projects, and complete them by the end of 2010. The public will get a chance to comment before the final designation is made.

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