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World's largest solar plant may be built in Cle Elum

by 158 | July 12, 2009 at 02:43 pm

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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell participated in the announcement, praising the plans. She pointed out the value of federal tax credits for solar projects, which she helped to extend.

"This project will move Washington into the second largest solar producer by megawatt, in the United States — behind California," Cantwell said.

The company also plans to lure a solar-panel manufacturer to Cle Elum, to produce the panels locally.

Trott said the project would create "hundreds" of jobs in the area.

This project is a good idea

and hopefully i will be

completed. There is a strong

neede to move away from

traditional energy sources into

newer ones, especially those

that do not polute.

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Uwe Paschen

at 21:24 on July 12th, 2009

It may be more important to have the world largest percentage of renewable energy produced over all then the single largest plant.

Would the US start to at least mach the amount of Renewable energy produced in Sweden, Germany, Japan or Spain then we could talk about progress.

With less then 1% of renewable energy produced today in the US it has a very long way to go still before it can even come close to the leaders in this area.

158

at 17:49 on July 12th, 2009

Yes, one plant is not enough. One for each state and for each large city would make an impact.

Renewable energy must be a big part of future energy usage,

Ostia

at 21:12 on July 12th, 2009

I agree with the previous comments plus it is also important to not only build 'plants' based on renewable energy. In comparison to traditional energy sources individual households can use solar energy individually. A change in mindset and increasing understanding of possibilities of utilizing renewable energies is essential, in particular in the US that is truly far behind in this respect.

Uwe Paschen

at 21:28 on July 12th, 2009

I fully agree Ostia, The diversification of power production from a central power plant to multiple small producers such as single households is what in large part lead to the success of Renewable energy in Japan, Germany, Sweden and Spain.

The change those governments broth in to the laws to allow single households to produce and sale energy to the grid and force the grid operator to buy this energy made it possible to reach the present 15 to 25% renewable power produced in those countries. Where Sweden and Germany lead with the highest percentage of renewable power produced and used today.