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World's largest solar plant opens in California

By Take Two Staff
Published Feb 10, 2015
Solar panels in the Mojave Desert
Solar panels in the Mojave Desert
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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World's largest solar plant opens in California

California's Riverside County is now home to one of the nation's largest solar power plants.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewel on Monday flipped the switch at Desert Sunlight Solar Farm. It's the last of five solar farms funded by the Department of Energy.

Taylor Goldenstein recently wrote about this for the LA Times and she talks more about what we can expect from the plant.