The low cost of natural gas power plants makes all of these commercial solar power plant schemes uneconomic except in Hawaii.

Jerry Brown needs to jump into the ocean and stay there. I lived in the area east of LA and there were these great wind machines that never turned except maybe once or twice during the ´winter´. Too expensive and worthless.

It´s no secret that solar power is uneconomic, and guess what greenies, that means somebody has to pay for it.

The counties should be able to break even, whatever nutbars are funding the solar projects need to build and maintain their own roads, etc.

"...tax revenue would be a fraction of the customary amount because portions of the plant qualifiy [sic] for a solar tax exclusion."

In case anyone needs a definition of "urban parasite" it is these people who demand product but make laws that harm those who produce.

This is the same state that wouldn´t let you bury a pipeline for oil or erect a powerline across those God forsaken deserts but doesn´t seem to mind hundreds of acres of metal and glass completely covered over. I´ll bet they are inconveniencing some type of lizard with all that litter.

So often the best part of an article is the last sentence.

Chinatown redux.

These projects must be pushed through. Hundreds of 0bama cronies are making millions off the taxpayers ´loans.´

The environazis are assisting the crooks to rip off the taxpayers in the biggest government assisted scam in many decades. Solar power is wildly uneconomic and these whackjob liars have to do everything they can to kill normal energy like natural gas and oil, which are being developed at a HUGE rate.

They are desperate to stop cheap energy and force us to pay these criminals billions for stupid "green" energy. Green = expensive and unreliable.

#1 adds perspective. Solar, like nearly anything else, might be the best solution somewhere and sometime.

Where all fuel or other power must be imported at high expense. Or where the location is suitable for virtually nothing else.

But when you see governments pushing massive installations of the wrong technology you are not looking at an energy program, you are witnessing a mania. And one nearly always manifested through massive corruption.

So many of these alternatives projects don´t even work to specifications. Even when the specifications were laughable to start with.

As stupid as a California Democrat.
(This simile is my contribution to the English language.)

Since the power is all going to LA and environs, no development in the desert should be allowed until every rooftop and backyard in LA is covered with solar panels. Then, if development is allowed out in the desert, the solar companies should bear the full cost of the projects and infrastructure AND REMEDIATION OF THE SITE ONCE THE PROJECT GOES BELLY UP. This is standard for most private projects anywhere else in the USA.