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A study released by the Department of Defense found that four miltary bases located in the California desert could generate 7 GW of solar power, the equivalent of seven nuclear power plants.
The department studied nine different bases located in California and Nevada to uncover the solar energy potential and found that even though 96 percent of the land on those bases was unsuitable for solar development, there still existed enough suitable land on four California bases to generate more than 30 times the electricity used by those bases. That 7-GW potential also equals about 25 percent of the renewable energy that the state is requiring utilities to use by 2015.
The department is looking to make distributed installations of solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy sources in order to bring down cost and also to make the bases more self-sufficient, hopefully allowing them to run operations for weeks or months if any interruptions occurred in power from the grid.
The four military bases that will likely see solar power development based on this study are Edwards Air Force Base, Fort Irwin, China Lake and Twentynine Palms.
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written by Timetrvlr, January 23, 2012
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written by Minor Heretic, January 26, 2012
I hope they actually do it this time. The one problem I see is that they want to use private developers (see DoD link) to avoid putting up capital. That just means that they will be overpaying a military contractor for solar power instead of overpaying a utility for fossil fueled power. They could just cancel a few of those jet fighters that the Air Force doesn't want and pay for the whole program.
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written by IDK, March 28, 2013
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I can see California exporting renewable energy within a decade.