{"id":48595,"date":"2015-09-02T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48595"},"modified":"2015-09-02T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:08:53","slug":"the-us-just-made-its-largest-investment-in-renewable-energy-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/09\/the-us-just-made-its-largest-investment-in-renewable-energy-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Just Made Its Largest Investment In Renewable Energy Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. government just made its largest renewable energy purchase to date.The U.S. Navy has invested an undisclosed amount in the Mesquite solar farm\u00a0in sun-rich Arizona, allowing for an expansion of the facility that is anticipated to make it the world\u2019s largest solar farm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the Climate News Network\u2019s Paul Brown reports, the farm — located about 40 miles west of Phoenix — will provide 210 megawatts of direct power, a third of the energy needed to power 14 Navy and Marine Corps sites. The solar farm, slated to go online next year, is expected to save the Navy \u201cat least\u201d $90 million in energy costs over the course of the 25-year contract with Sempra U.S. Gas and Power, which operates it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Mesquite facility, which completed its first phase of buildout in late 2012, has a potential capacity of 700 megawatts, which would power up to 260,000 homes. It requires no water to operate and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, according to Sempra.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The investment marks a big step toward the Department of Defense\u2019s Congress-mandated goal to either produce or procure 25 percent of its total energy needs\u00a0from renewable sources by 2025, the Navy announcement noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The U.S. government just made its largest renewable energy purchase to date.The U.S. Navy has invested an undisclosed amount in the Mesquite solar farm\u00a0in sun-rich Arizona, allowing for an expansion of the facility that is anticipated to make it the world\u2019s largest solar farm. As the Climate News Network\u2019s Paul Brown reports, the farm —…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[566,1963,395,757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48598,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48595\/revisions\/48598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}