Army to Build Biggest Solar Farm in the Country

In a bid to reduce its 3 billion dollar a year energy bill the Army has committed to building a 500-megawatt solar farm in the Mojave Desert to be operational by the year 2013. The array will be the largest of its kind in the United States, outperforming its nearest competitor by nearly 475-megawatts a year. This news comes on the heels of the Army's announcement that it will be establishing an energy council to advance a number of projects aimed at making the Armed Services environmentally sustainable, including plans to purchase 4,000 electric vehicles to replace 800 gas-powered vehicles currently used in maintenence at bases all over the country and converting bio-mass in the form of used cardboard and grass clippings into diesel and jet fuel. Now if they'd just stop killing people we'd be all set.

Facts and figures from the CNET News article "Army plans 500-megawatt solar thermal farm" by Elsa Wenzel