Here Chris Johns, President of PG&E, talks about the utility’s new 2-megawatt Vaca-Dixon solar array and how it could fit into a strategy of using smaller arrays, closer to transmission and customers.

The EPA has already designated the Idaho-Maryland Mine site as suitable for utility-scale solar. With Emgold’s continuing prospects looking bleaker, the city of Grass Valley should start exploring viable alternatives such as this kind of solar facility.