California start to build the world’s largest solar power station.

A cost of $4 billion, the design capacity of more than 1000 megawatts of solar power stations are build in Southern California Blythe on 17th. It is expected to be completed in 2017. The developers and government of California said: the scale of this solar power plant is the world’s largest one.

US secretary of the interior while attending the commencement ceremony, he said the Bryce solar power station will be the United States’ “milestone” in development of renewable energy. It shows that the United States is working in the renewable energy field for this future technology leadership. Through the development of renewable energy, the US can not only guarantee energy security, but also create jobs.
Blythe off grid solar system plant covers an area of about 2800 hectares, built in the desert land. It is a huge concave mirror array by converting sunlight into heat heating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. The developers, “Solar Trust of USA,” said: the project will be constructed in two phases, each phase of works installed capacity is 500 MW, after completed, the produced power can be enough for 750000 homes.
Solar power depends not only the sun, but also take up a huge land resources, and in southern California the sun is sufficient, there are a lot of low commercial value desert land, which is suitable for the development of solar power stations. Earlier, the vicinity has built nine small-scale solar power plants with a total installed capacity of 354 MW, as well as in the construction of a solar power plant installed capacity of 370 MW. The Blythe solar power plant installed capacity are close to a nuclear power plant.
Since participate in the commencement ceremony, California Governor Brown said: the California government plans to take the renewable energy accounted for 30% of all energy consumed in California by 2020. The construction of Blythe solar power plant in California have made an important step to achieve this goal.