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

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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...

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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)