California Utility Signs Pact to Buy Power From 'Desert Sunlight' Plant
SUNPLUGGERS - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has signed an agreement to purchase electricity from the proposed Desert Sunlight solar power plant in California's Colorado Desert.
First Solar Inc., based in Tempe, Ariz., is seeking approval from the state and federal governments to construct a 550-megawatt photovoltaic power plant about 6 miles north of a hamlet called Desert Center, which is about 70 miles east of Palm Springs, Calif.
