The power is too expensive. Shocker. The giant mirrors also act as death rays for birds and set the California plant on fire. PG&E pulled out of its contract, Southern Cal Edison is working on pulling out of their end.
The sun sets on California’s massive solar plant
If Newsom really wanted to impress both Americans and Californians-with-brains, he would get behind another nuclear power plant. Diablo Canyon is clean, produces 17,700 gigawatts compared to 856 gigawatts produced by the solar farm and it takes up 1/5th the space of the solar farm. Also, the solar farm took up six times the natural gas it was allotted to keep itself running.