Vast solar project in California desert gets green light

The Crimson Solar Project will be located on 2,000 acres of public lands close to the Californian city of Blythe, around 200 miles east of Los Angeles. The city is near the Arizona border in the Colorado desert and gets around 360 days of sunshine a year.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gave its final approval on Monday. The $550 million project will create around 650 temporary construction jobs, ten permanent jobs and 40 temporary jobs in operations and maintenance over 30 years, the Department of Interior said.