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KOB-TV.com - Carlsbad officials unveiled the largest solar power project in New Mexico on Thursday. Three of the five solar power plants in Southeast New Mexico went online, feeding enough electricity over the next 20 years to power almost 200,000
homes. Eddy and Lea counties added the additional energy source to their already impressive portfolio. "We have, of course, nuclear, we have bio fuels being produced down here, a vibrant oil and gas industry that's doing fantastic and now we have solar," said John Waters of Eddy County Economic Development. The 100 acres of photovoltaic panels will track the sun's movement in the sky for the next 20 to 30 years. It's all part of a plan to create clean, renewable energy and jobs. "What we have is a facility that employed people for a significant amount of time, and will continue to do so over the next 20 to 30 years," said Robert Reichenberger, Sun Edison spokesperson. "These panels and this facility are expected to last that long so we will continue to need people on the jobsite to monitor the project." Out of the three power plants online, two of them are in Jal and one is in Carlsbad.
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New Mexico's largest solar plant opens in Carlsbad
From KOB-TV.com - Carlsbad officials unveiled the largest solar power project in New Mexico on Thursday. Three of the five solar power plants in Southeast New Mexico went online, feeding enough electricity over the next 20 years to power almost 200,000 homes. Eddy and Lea counties added the additional energy source to their already impressive portfolio. "We have, of course, nuclear, we have bio fuels being produced down here, a vibrant oil and gas industry that's doing fantastic and now we have solar," said John Waters of Eddy County Economic Development. The 100 acres of photovoltaic panels will track the sun's movement in the sky for the next 20 to 30 years. It's all part of a plan to create clean, renewable energy and jobs. "What we have is a facility that employed people for a significant amount of time, and will continue to do so over the next 20 to 30 years," said Robert Reichenberger, Sun Edison spokesperson. "These panels and this facility are expected to last that long so we will continue to need people on the jobsite to monitor the project." Out of the three power plants online, two of them are in Jal and one is in Carlsbad. Read more
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And at what cost to the taxpayer? IF solar was viable, corporations would build it for the profit it could supply.
And the panels. According to a recent report about a federal fish hatchery in Montana, most panels last about 10 years before needing replacement. There they spent $183,000 to save on electricity that cost $3500 per year.
What we have here with laws that require change, we have theft by fiat. We are forced into using something that may or may not prove better. And how much fuel was used to produce the purified silicon necessary to build these panels?
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