{"id":122254,"date":"2021-05-04T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/u-s-approves-massive-solar-project-in-california-desert"},"modified":"2021-05-04T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:23:00","slug":"u-s-approves-massive-solar-project-in-california-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/u-s-approves-massive-solar-project-in-california-desert","title":{"rendered":"U.S. approves massive solar project in California desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-approves-massive-solar-project-in-california-desert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration on Monday said it has approved a major solar energy project in the California desert that will be capable of powering nearly 90000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The $550 million Crimson Solar Project will be sited on 2000 acres of federal land west of Blythe, California, the Interior Department said in a statement. It is being developed by Canadian Solar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/CSIQ.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(CSIQ.O)<\/a> unit Recurrent Energy and will deliver power to California utility Southern California Edison.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as President Joe Biden has vowed to expand development of renewable energy projects on public lands as part of a broader agenda to fight climate change, create jobs and reverse former President Donald Trump\u2019s emphasis on maximizing fossil fuel extraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Monday said it has approved a major solar energy project in the California desert that will be capable of powering nearly 90000 homes. The $550 million Crimson Solar Project will be sited on 2000 acres of federal land west of Blythe, California, the Interior Department said in a statement. It is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1878,15,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-employment","category-habitats","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}