Written by A Department of Defense study found that four military bases in California could generate the same amount of solar power as seven nuclear power plants, 7 gigawatts.
The department studied nine different bases located in California and Nevada to uncover the solar energy potential and found that even though 96 percent of the land on those bases was unsuitable for solar development, there still existed enough suitable land on four California bases to generate more than 30 times the electricity used by those bases. That 7-GW potential also equals about 25 percent of the renewable energy that the state is requiring utilities to use by 2015.
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