Colorado Tapped for Government's New Solar Energy Zones

This is pretty big news. The U.S. Department of Interior has designated solar zones across the western U.S. where utility-scale solar power plants will be built generating up to 24,000 megawatts of clean renewable power. By my conservative calculations, 24K megawatts can power at least 5 million homes, but other sources say that it could power over 20 million homes. Regardless, millions of homes with clean renewable power is a good thing. A little over 16,000 acres has been identified in Colorado for these solar power plants. However, since it is utility-scale power this will require transmission lines across some pristine western country. I go back and forth on the issue of utility-scale renewables versus distributed generation (DG). I'm not sure what the right answer is. What I do know is that more of our electricity needs to come from renewable sources as quickly as possible, and it probably needs to be a combination of utility-scale and DG.