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Article:	Big Solar Project Planned for Arizona Desert - Marianne Lavelle (US News and World Report)	View Article
Published:	2/21/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 264 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Renewable Energy

Article Details: Arizona Public Service announces plans to build the world's largest "concentrating solar power" plant, a $1 billion project to spread parabolic mirrors over a 3-mile-square stretch of desert 70 miles southwest of Phoenix. It will generate 280 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 70,000 homes.

Article:	Hot Air and Wind - Robert J. Michaels (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	12/20/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 275 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Renewable Energy

Article Details: Proposed legislation for a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) reverses decades of improvement in environmental regulation, where cap-and-trade markets have replaced command regimes and regulators set allowable emissions by comparing costs and benefits. Instead, it forces the use of politically favored technologies rather than allowing market participants to choose their own methods of environmental compliance.