By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

Albuquerque’s New Mexico Business Weekly has announced a firm has plans for a 2500 acre solar power array for Guadalupe County.  The Spanish firm, GA-Solar announced that the project would be a 300 megawatt facility.  According to the firm, the project will supply enough electricity for 50,000 homes.

Quoting from the article, it looks like construction will see hundreds of employees and the permanent workforce will be up to 75:

GA-Solar’s parent firm, Corporación Gestamp, will invest $1 billion to develop the project, which will take up to four years to construct. The company will employ 300 during construction, and will have 75 full-time employees once the plant is completed, said GA-Solar and Corporación Gestamp CEO Jon Riberas in a news release.

New Mexico through the Economic Development Department had a say, as did Governor Richardson when he issued this statement:

“I believe this unprecedented investment shows that New Mexico has not only become the center of the North American solar industry, but is ready to take its place as a global player in the production of renewable energy,” Richardson said in a prepared statement.

Surely, something will have to be done to distribute this kind of electricity generation.  Especially, when this project’s capacity is added to output by wind turbine generation and one or two other large solar arrays.  Perhaps, Tres Amigas will play a hand in  the distribution.  That is, if Tres Amigas is ever constructed.

Read the complete story here.

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