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![The Solana solar power plant near Gila Bend | Photo: Abengoa Solar](https://cleanpowercampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Abengoa-solar-10-11-13-thumb_61723-300x225.jpg)
The Solana solar power plant near Gila Bend | Photo: Abengoa Solar
Arizona Public Service, which supplies 11 million Arizonans with electricity, will buy all the power generated by the project for 30 years — and that power will apparently be generated day or night.
The Solana plant, which occupies about 1,900 acres in southwest Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, combines parabolic trough mirror technology with molten salt thermal storage.