I was reading an article at wired.com about the Biggest Solar Deal in history.   In a deal between Southern California Edison and Brightsource,  the latter would be building a series of 7 installations that would eventually produce 1,300 megawatts of energy.
Once completed, this facility is expected to generate 3.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per annum.  Probably bigger than some of the nuclear power plants out there and it is safer too.
The solar technology used won’t be photovoltaics (solar panels)  but rather thru solar thermal power.  A whole array of mirrors would be used to reflect the suns rays to …read more