While construction plans have not been finalised, the developers will likely try to finish ahead of the planned investment tax credit (ITC) step-down at the end of 2016, setting off a flurry of construction and hiring in the Dry Lake Valley, in southern Nevada.

In June 2014 the Bureau of Land Management held an auction for projects within the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone – one of 19 such zones spread across six sunny southwestern states that have been included in the Western Solar Plan.

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