Michael Giberson
So, I’ve been thinking more about Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s goal of turning the state into “the Persian Gulf of solar energy.” that devoting about 236 square miles of Arizona desert to solar generators — like the recently announced state-of-the-art Solana Generating Station — would be enough to make the state self-sufficient (intermittency issues aside). A “Persian Gulf of solar energy” would not just be self-sufficient, it would be a big exporter.
(In a related development today the U.S. Department of Energy reaffirmed its designation of two NIETC regions, one in the Northeast-Mid-Atlantic area and the other covering parts of Southern California and three counties in Arizona. In a press release, DOE “dismissed as being without merit challenges raised by the applicants for rehearing.”)
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