US approves $6bn solar project

The US government has approved a 1,000-megawatt solar project on land in southern California, the largest planned on publicly-owned lands.

The €6.3bn (€4.5bn) Blythe Solar Power Project in the Mojave Desert near Blythe, California, is the sixth such development approved this month – all in California or Nevada. Approval of a seventh project, also in California, is expected in the next few weeks.