“$337 million guarantee for Mesquite Solar 1 to develop a 150 megawatt solar plant near Phoenix.”
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arizona-solar-plant-picks-chinese-supplier/
February 4, 2011, 1:52 pm
Arizona Solar Plant Picks Chinese Supplier
By TODD WOODY
Green: Business
Suntech, the Chinese solar giant, has won a contract to supply photovoltaic panels for a 150-megawatt project in Arizona, marking China’s entry into a lucrative United States power-plant market dominated by American companies.
The project is the first phase of a planned 700-megawatt project called Mesquite Solar to be built about 40 miles west of Phoenix and operated by Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. A California utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, will buy the electricity produced by the power plant’s first phase, called Mesquite Solar 1.
Suntech to Supply 800,000 PV Panels for Sempra’s Mesquite 1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576599031870050492.html
A second, $337 million loan guarantee announced Wednesday will back Sempra Energy’s Mesquite Solar I project in Arizona, about 45 miles west of Phoenix. That 150-megawatt facility will use solar panels made in Arizona by Suntech Power, which is based in China.
Sempra is a miserable outfit and the third largest energy company in California. I question why taxpayers should fund this project when the infrastructure is being provided by China. Let China lend the funds.