Spanish company plans New Mexico solar plant
Gov. Bill Richardson joined with executives of GA-Solar and its parent company, Gestamp Corp., to announce the photovoltaic solar plant. It will cover 2,500 acres near Santa Rosa in eastern New Mexico.
The plant will take four years to complete and will produce 300 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply power to 50,000 households a year.
The project will employ 300 construction workers and provide 75 permanent jobs.
Power produced by the plant will qualify for state tax breaks for renewable energy.
Madrid-based Gestamp is a multinational company producing automotive and steel components and has renewable energy projects.
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Instead, the barge's arrival opened a Pandora's box of partisan mudslinging in a country hobbled by political sectarianism and dysfunction.
There have been rows over where it should dock, how to allocate its 235 megawatts of power, and even what to call the barge.
It has even driven a wedge between Lebanon's two dominant parties among Shiite Muslims:…
