EERE Network News February 15, 2006 News and Events Ground has
been broken for the construction of a 64-megawatt solar thermal
power plant in Nevada. Called Nevada Solar One, the plant is the
largest of its kind to be built since 1992. It uses trough-
shaped mirrors to collect and concentrate sunlight. SunEdison
and Powered by Renewables are teaming up to build the world's
largest solar photovoltaic power plant in Nevada. While Nevada
may take the lead, large solar power projects have also been
built recently in California, New Jersey, and New York. You
can't fault BP for not thinking big. Just last year, the company
announced plans to build a 350-megawatt hydrogen power plant in
Scotland, and now it plans to top that with a larger hydrogen
power plant in California. The proposed billion-dollar plant
will convert petroleum coke into hydrogen. The Ford Motor
Company and General Motors Corporation (GM) have made firm
commitments to increase the availability of ethanol-rich E85 in
the Midwest. Combined, the two c