Nevada has America's largest solar power system
Despite celebrating the world's gadgetry next week at CES and containing the blindingly brightly lit Las Vegas, Nevada has taken steps towards producing more green energy.
The 14-megawatt Nellis solar energy system has the distinction being the US's largest "solar photovoltaic system", at least until California's whopping 80-megawatt project is completed. Here come the numbers: 72,000 panels arranged over 140 acres aim to produce 30 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity, powering one quarter of the Nellis Air Force Base it is installed at. That's 25% of the energy needed by some 12,000 residents, all of which sounds pretty positive to me (before us Shiny Shinies covering CES board that carbon-spewing jet, of course).
