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The World's Largest Solar Farm
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The World's Largest Solar Farm
The Ivanpah Solar Farm
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In February, the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System opened over a 3,500-acre stretch of the Mojave Desert. The solar thermal farm operates at 392 megawatts—just under 1 percent of California’s total energy production, or enough to power 140,000 homes.

The Ivanpah solar farm eliminates 450,000 tons of carbon emissions annually, the equivalent of taking 88,000 cars off the road.

This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of Popular Science.

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