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Bobby Magill reports: "SolarReserve LLC has withdrawn its application to build the world’s largest concentrating solar-thermal power plant on public land in the Nevada desert, according to the Bureau of Land Management."
"The California renewable energy developer had planned to build a $5 billion, 2-gigawatt solar power plant north of Las Vegas using 10 'power towers' that would have used the sun’s energy to super-heat molten salt to produce electricity for 1 million Californians," adds Magill.
The reasons for the developer's decisions are unknown, but the project has drawn opposition from the Defenders of Wildlife organization.
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