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Arizona’s climate helps make it an ideal location for utility-scale projects, experts say, like this Sempra U.S. Gas & Power facility in Tonopah that provides energy for military bases in California. (Photo by Gavin Maxwell/Cronkite News)
The Solana facility near Gila Bend uses thousands of curved mirrors to focus sunlight, which heats fluid that turns a turbine, creating electricity in the process. This plant went on line in 2012. (Photo by Jessica Testa/Cronkite News)
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