DOI 'Flips the Switch' on California Solar Farm

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on February nine formally "flipped the switch" on the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, the nation's biggest solar energy plan on public lands. Desert Sunlight is located on about 4,100 acres managed by DOI's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Riverside County, about 70 miles east of Palm Springs and 6 miles north of the rural community of Desert Center.

Now operating at full capacity, the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is providing 550 megawatts of electricity to the grid, enough energy to power 160,000 average homes. The facility is estimated to displace 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road. Desert Sunlight is the 6th solar plan approved on public lands by the BLM that is now operational. See the BLM news release.

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