A desert is the right place to build a solar powar plant because the Sun unleashes its power without any mercy there. If you think that California wants that 20 percent of its power to be generated by renewable sources by 2010. Following this law, Pacific Gas& Electric reached an agreement with BrightSource Energy and this deal will result in the biggest solar power plant in the world.

The perfect place for the solar array is the Mojave Desert and that’s exactly where they will build it. For this deal there will be an investment of $2 billion with the possibility of an extra $1 billion for additional plants that will power up about 375,000 homes in California. The solar-thermal power plants will generate 500 megawatts and those extra-plants could produce another 400 megawatts of energy.

Pacific Gas&Electric chosen solar-thermal energy because “it is available when needed most in California - during the peak mid-day summer period” said Fong Wan, vice president of PG&E.