First Solar

• Brightsource has been the poster child of “largest solar project” headlines for 2009, first with a 1.3GW facility with help from Southern California Edison.  Then, PG&E got a little jealous and upped their previously stated contract of 900MW with Brightsource up to 1.31GW, just outdoing SCE’s 1.3.
• Well folks, save those for the past because this one’s big:  First Solar and the Chinese government have now began plans for a 2GW, 16,000 acre solar PV plant in the Mongolian desert.
• The cost of the project is slated to be somewhere in between $5-6 billion, and is to be completed by 2019.
• This is exciting, because as I wrote last week, when you look how much solar it would take to power the world in terms of surface area, the goal seems much more attainable.  Go cleantech, go green.

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