World’s largest solar farm becomes operational in California

Late last month, the Topaz Solar project achieved full commercial operation with the completion of its final 40-megawatt phase. This is the first 500-megawatt plus solar farm to come on-line in the US and the largest solar plant on-line in the world. Two years ago, the millionth First Solar solar module was installed at the power plant owned by MidAmerican Solar. As of today, the project has installed 9 million solar panels across 9.5 square miles in San Luis Obispo County on California’s Carrizo Plain.