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INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - Port of LA solar power project finally gets moving
City officials estimate the 10-megawatt project will produce several hundred jobs in construction, engineering and maintenance
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Press-Telegram Long Beach by Kristopher Hanson -27 April 2009: -- With more than 300 days of annual sunshine and enough open space to park tens of thousands of unsold cars, the world's largest megaships and more than a few shipping containers, the port seems to be a perfect place for a solar power plant... So far, workers have installed about half of the 71,000 square-feet of solar panels destined for the cruise ship terminal rooftop in the Port of Los Angeles. That installation marks the beginning stage of an ambitious project to provide enough clean energy to power 2,500 homes within six years... The port's solar initiative takes advantage of vast expanses of open space - including warehouse rooftops, terminal parking lots and empty road shoulders - to install 1.15-million square-feet of solar panels in coming years... The sun's energy will be used to power electric cranes and recharge electric container trucks and yard hostlers in coming years. Electricity will also be funneled to ships capable of plugging into dockside outlets while in port - cutting pollution levels from auxiliary engines... (Photo, by Daniel Figueroa)
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