$300 Million Solar Plant Comes to Cle Elum, WA

There is a lot of nothing...er beautiful wilderness in the logging city of Cle Elum, Washington. Apparently the city's abundance of open space and unusually high volume of sun has made it the perfect spot for a 75 megawatt, $300 million photovoltaic solar plant. According to a story in TechFlash, developers are one step closer to building this massive plant, which will be one of the world's largest -- spanning 400 acres! The plant will bring power to nearly 50,000 households, create dozens of jobs and give the quaint, Leave it to Beaver-type city a modern technology tourist attraction. It's too early to tell if this site will detract from the number of visitors that head to the world's largest frying pan located in Long Beach, WA.



-posted by Lindsay