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Energy Law

Oct. 8, 2010

Tiny Lots Block Big Solar Plans

When a group of state officials and renewable energy advocates were scouring for the best solar energy sites, they thought they had struck gold in the Western Mojave desert. But developing the land is proving to be far more complicated.

By Fiona Smith

Daily Journal Staff Writer

When a group of state officials and renewable energy advocates were scouring for the best solar energy sites, they thought they had struck gold in the Western Mojave desert. Not only was the amount of sun hitting the empty land there phenomenal, it was relatively close to urban areas and much of the land had been bulldozed and appeared to have little ecological value.

But there was a c...

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