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Losing Bidder Drops Opposition to Boulder City, Nev., Solar Power Project.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By John G. Edwards, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 2--An independent energy company gained backing Friday for what it believes is the biggest solar project under development in the country -- a 50-megawatt solar power project in the Eldorado Valley near Boulder City.
Duke Solar Energy, a Raleigh, N.C., company, is proposing to build the plant to provide solar energy to Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co.
PowerLight Corp., an unsuccessful bidder from Berkley, Calif., had challenged the Duke project, pointing to Duke's planned electricity price of 16 to 17 cents a kilowatt hour.
By comparison, the electric utilities want the Public Utilities Commission to approve contracts to buy...
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