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February 22, 2008

Massive solar power plant for Arizona

By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX — A Spanish company is planning to take 3 square miles of desert southwest of Phoenix and turn them into one of the largest solar power plants in the world both in size and capacity, Arizona and Spanish officials announced Thursday.

Abengoa Solar, which has plants in Spain, northern Africa and other parts of the U.S., could begin construction as early as next year on the 280-megawatt plant in Gila Bend — a small, dusty town 50 miles southeast of Phoenix. It could be producing solar energy by 2011.


 
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