Well boys and girls the US clean energy just added another 14 megawatt’s of energy to it’s tally. As the giant 14MW system in Nevada was turned on today, it is currently the newest and largest solar PV system in the United States owned and operated by Nellis Solar Energy Systems. It is being run at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and will apparently pump out around 30 million kilowatt hours of clean energy every year which will supplement around 25 percent of the total power used by the 12,000 people working at the base, as far as I know their’s no current project to convert the other 75% to clean energy but I would hope that it is at least in the concept stage to become a 100% clean air force base (the first perhaps?). Maybe they’ll install generators on their exercise bikes or something to do a little Miracle burn of clean energy while all those air force cadets are working their butts off :)
The project took up 140 acres of land but considering the location it’s not like it was being used anyway. The area was covered with a total of 72,000 solar panels to get up to that record breaking 14MW number. While it’s probably a proud moment to hold the “largest” record they will have to fall back on just being happy to contribute to clean energy quite soon, as a new record breaking project in California by CleanTech America is set to be unleashed fairly shortly measuring in at 80 megawatt’s putting it well into the lead.
Source: MetaEfficient
