Seattle:
Interior
Secretary
Ken
Salazar
gave
final
approval
to
two
big
projects
to
be
built
in
the
deserts
of
southern
California,
calling
it
an
"historic
day
for
America".
Tessera
Solar's
709MW
Imperial
Valley,
occupying
6,360
acres
(26sq
km)
of
federal
land,
will
use
solar
dish
engines.
Chevron
Energy
Solutions'
45MW
Lucerne
Valley
will
use
360,000
PV
panels
spread
across
422
acres.
They
are
the
first
two
of
14
projects
with
a
potential
capacity
of
more
than
6GW
that
are
expected
to
come
up
for
final
approval
before
the
end
of…
