10/19/2012

New Program Spurs Solar Development on Public Land

Photovoltaic solar power plant at Nellis Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada. Image courtesy of USAF
Photovoltaic solar power plant at Nellis Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada. Image courtesy of USAF

The government recently announced a new plan to facilitate the development of solar energy projects on public land in six Western states. Lawrence Susskind, a professor of urban and environmental planning at MIT, explains what it means for the future of renewable energy.

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Lawrence Susskind

Lawrence Susskind is a professor of urban and environmental planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Denise Chow is a sci-tech editor at Live Science and a former associate producer for Science Friday.