Moapa Solar Farm Enters $1.6 Billion Deal to Power Los Angeles Homes

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a 25-year, $1.6 billion deal to buy power from a solar plant on the Moapa River Reservation, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.The 350-megawatt farm will be the first commercial-grade solar project on tribal land in the U.S. The Interior Department fast-tracked approval of the utility-scale solar farm in June. Nearly one million photovoltaic panels will be built on 2,000 acres of the tribe's 71,954-acre landbase in Clark County, Nevada, just 30 miles northeast of Las Vegas, said William Anderson, chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians...