[ RadSafe ] PG&E Signs World's Largest Solar Power Deal

[Otto Raabe]

At 12:04 PM 7/25/2007, Sandy Perle wrote:
>PG&E Signs World's Largest Solar Power Deal
>Green Wombat - Jul 25- California utility PG&E today will announce an
>agreement to buy 553 megawatts of electricity from a solar power
>plant to be built by Israeli company Solel in the Mojave Desert.
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July 25, 2007

At about 40 cents per kilowatt-hour compared to 4 cents at PG&E's 
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, this deal must be a public relations 
gambit to coddle the California  environmentalists. It is certainly 
not a good business investment. An even in the Mojave desert there 
will be no power at night!

Otto


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