Green Wombat

Ground will be broken Monday on a 15-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant at Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas. The plant is the latest utility-scale solar project from PowerLight (SPWR), which is building the facility. Last month a PowerLight-built 20-megawatt solar power plant opened in Portugal and the SunPower subsidiary is building three more PV solar power stations in Spain. The Nevada solar plant will be financed and operated by MMA Renewable Ventures (MMA), a San Francisco firm that finances large-scale commercial solar arrays and now is getting into the solar power plant business.
"At the end of the day, the real upside for us is doing the bigger deals…the big PV plants," MMA Renewable exec Mark McLanahan recently told Green Wombat.