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On Wednesday, the Biden Administration announced some potential revisions to the USA’s solar development plan.
The revisions include new projects that will power half a million households in Arizona and surrounding states.
The goal for these revisions is to fully decarbonise the nation’s electricity grid by 2035.
The Bureau of Land Management have revisited the 2012 solar plan to create solar development zones in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
In addition to this, the revisions will plan to build on solar development zones already planned or created in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
In total, the plans are set to encourage solar development on 22million acres of land that is within 10miles of transmission lines.
So far, 47 clean energy projects have been established and are generating 11,236megawatts (MW) of electricity. This is enough electricity to power 3.5million homes.
The revisions have updated the total progression on projects located in the south-west.
Currently, the projects will add 17,000MW of solar and 13,000MW of battery storage on to the electricity grid.
In Arizona, the White Wing Ranch solar installation project and the Harquahala Valley Sunrise transmission project will end up generating enough power for 100,000 homes.
Overall, the Biden Administration have solidified their position on increasing solar generation in the USA.
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