Пъпеш, след като руска компания собственик на стоманолеярна в Колорадо минава на соларки, защото така им излиза по-евтино от въглищата, защо пък да няма каквато друга фабрика си намислиш на соларки 
Later this week, a huge new solar array on Colorado’s southern High Plains will officially launch — and proponents of a global energy transition will have a new beacon for their cause. The $285m Bighorn Solar array, developed by Lightsource BP just outside Pueblo, the city that made much of the rail track that snakes across America’s west, will be one of the largest solar facilities east of the Rockies.
The electricity it generates will help Pueblo make the “cleanest steel and engineered steel products in the world”, according to Evraz, the Russian mining conglomerate that owns the city’s 140-year-old steel works.
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While the array itself will only employ a crew of just four or five to monitor the 750,000 panels, the cheap electricity will underpin Evraz’s $500m plan to expand the mill. It already employs 1,000 people and will need another 300 as it adds facilities to make longer rail tracks.
Without the cheap solar, the Russian company would have moved the operation elsewhere.
Solar panels at the Bighorn Solar project, which sits next to the Comanche coal-fired power station outside Pueblo in southern Colorado © Derek Brower
Later this week, a huge new solar array on Colorado’s southern High Plains will officially launch — and proponents of a global energy transition will have a new beacon for their cause. The $285m Bighorn Solar array, developed by Lightsource BP just outside Pueblo, the city that made much of the rail track that snakes across America’s west, will be one of the largest solar facilities east of the Rockies.
The electricity it generates will help Pueblo make the “cleanest steel and engineered steel products in the world”, according to Evraz, the Russian mining conglomerate that owns the city’s 140-year-old steel works.
...
While the array itself will only employ a crew of just four or five to monitor the 750,000 panels, the cheap electricity will underpin Evraz’s $500m plan to expand the mill. It already employs 1,000 people and will need another 300 as it adds facilities to make longer rail tracks.
Without the cheap solar, the Russian company would have moved the operation elsewhere.
Solar panels at the Bighorn Solar project, which sits next to the Comanche coal-fired power station outside Pueblo in southern Colorado © Derek Brower
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