Proposed by Genesis Solar, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, the facility will be located on nearly 1,950 acres of public land 25 miles west of Blythe in Riverside County.
The US Department of Interior secretary Ken Salazar said that the Genesis Solar project will help stimulate the economy and create more than a thousand new jobs in California.
The recent decision authorized the department’s Bureau of Land Management to offer Genesis Solar a right-of-way grant to use these public lands for 30 years if all rents and other conditions are met.
In October, the department approved six other large-scale solar energy projects that have a total generating capacity of about 2,837MW.
