{"id":3563,"date":"2011-04-06T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2011-04-06T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:23:17","slug":"nevada-dedicates-largest-photovoltaic-solar-plant-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/nevada-dedicates-largest-photovoltaic-solar-plant-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Dedicates Largest Photovoltaic Solar Plant in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a name=\"content\">March 31, 2011<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevada officials on March 18, 2011 dedicated Sempra Generation&#8217;s Copper Mountain Solar, the largest photovoltaic solar plant in the United States. The 48-megawatt (MW) project is adjacent to Sempra Generation&#8217;s 10-MW El Dorado Solar installation in Boulder City, Nevada, about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Construction on Copper Mountain Solar began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert site. Nearly 775,000 thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, which convert sunlight directly into electricity, were installed.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is now generating enough electricity to power about 14,000 average homes. The power from Copper Mountain Solar and El Dorado Solar has been sold to Pacific Gas &amp; Electric under separate 20-year contracts. See the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/public.sempra.com\/newsreleases\/viewpr.cfm?PR_ID=2591&amp;Co_Short_Nm=SE\" target=\"_blank\">Sempra press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2011 Nevada officials on March 18, 2011 dedicated Sempra Generation&#8217;s Copper Mountain Solar, the largest photovoltaic solar plant in the United States. The 48-megawatt (MW) project is adjacent to Sempra Generation&#8217;s 10-MW El Dorado Solar installation in Boulder City, Nevada, about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Construction on Copper Mountain Solar began &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/nevada-dedicates-largest-photovoltaic-solar-plant-in-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nevada Dedicates Largest Photovoltaic Solar Plant in the United States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}