WHAT SOLAR POWER PLANTS NEED

SEIA, LSA Submit Recommendations For Solar Energy Development On Public Lands
31 January 2012 (Solar Industry)

"The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Large-scale Solar Association (LSA) say they have submitted comments on the supplemental draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in Southwestern states… issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM)."

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"…[The] key principles…critical to the development of utility-scale solar power plants on public lands…[are]Flexibility for solar power plants to be responsibly developed outside of designated solar energy zones…Near-term identification of new solar energy zones suitable for project development…Coordination of transmission build-out in areas where solar energy development is occurring; and…Continued allotment of the resources and staff necessary for BLM staff to efficiently process pending project permit applications…"