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

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ICTMN Staff
Year: 
2012

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

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

alternative energy, business development, intergovernmental agreements, joint venture partnerships, renewable energy resources, solar farms
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Moapa Band of Paiute Indians
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Economic and Community Development, Governance, Land/Jurisdiction

ICTMN Staff. "Moapa Solar Farm Enters $1.6 Billion Deal to Power Los Angeles Homes." Indian Country Today Media Network. November 27, 2012. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/business/moapa-solar-farm..., accessed January 11, 2013)

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