The projects are:

*Midland Solar Energy Project, 350MW PV, to be built on privatelands about 12km southwest from Boulder City, Nevada. Permissionfrom DOI’s Bureau of Land Management was required as transmissionlines from the project to the grid will be sited on public lands.The project will power about 105,000 homes. DOI did not name theinvestors behind project developer Boulder Solar Power.

*Quartzsite Solar Project, a 100MW facility that will utilizeconcentrating solar “power tower” technology on BLM-managed landabout 177km west of Phoenix.