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by Jeremy Elton Jacquot~Treehugger
Following closely on the heels of Jumilla’s announcement comes the news that Abengoa Solar, a Spanish firm (what is it with the Spaniards and solar energy?), will build a 280-MW solar power plant 70 miles southwest of Phoenix. Upon completion, the Solana Generating Solution will become the world’s largest solar plant. As reported by Green Wombat’s Todd Woody, Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest utility, plans on paying around $4b over the next 30 years to power 70,000 homes. Wired Science’s Alexis Madrigal calculates that the plant’s kilowatt hour rate should therefore correspond to about 20 cents per kWh – taking into account the consumer markup – or roughly twice the kilowatt hour rate of coal-based
