Quiz time: Who has the largest solar power facility in the world?
What are your initial guesses? Europe? Asia? Nope. North America, the United States more specifically.
This is huge news. As more and more businesses are diving into solar power and creating more efficient technologies that will drive down costs and enable more solar installations for residential and commercial governments have been rushing to back their efforts.
Why? As a result of the governments realizing the economical, security, and environmental benefits that effect many different areas of a country's infrastructure it has become a race to have the best technologies and the most usage. While they are two distinct and different areas of the solar game they each have huge impacts and bragging rights. Right now, the U.S. has got a big solar muscle.
Just last month
Solar Trust of America's Blythe Solar Project
broke ground in the Mojave desert which will be home to a 1,000 mega
watt system. The energy used from the solar power site will help to
provide energy for more than 300,000 homes and provide some 1,000 jobs
during the construction of the facility.
Projects of this magnitude are happening because investors are seeing
the long term financial benefits as well as immediate incentives that
reduce costs. While a project for your own home will be on a much
smaller scale, there's no changing the benefits especially for residents
and business owners of states like Massachusetts that are pushing solar
initiatives.
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