"Germany Aims Big with a 960-Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm"
960 MW offshore wind farm located in the North Sea, being planned by RWE Innogy, a German company. There will be 250 turbines with 5-6 MW capacity each. The project will cost ~ $5.6 billion, span 56 square miles, will start in 2010 and be completed in 2015. This farm could possibly avoid 2.6 million tons of CO2 per year.
"Biggest Solar Deal Ever Announced — We're Talking Gigawatts"
1,300 MW solar thermal installation ("concentrates the sun's rays to create steam in a boiler and spin a turbine"), covering 10,500 acres, located in the desert outside LA. The project is the result of a deal between the utility Southern California Edison and the company BrightSource.
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