The board of California’s Westlands Water District has adopted a clean infrastructure plan that it projects could result in 21 GW of solar power at full buildout.
The Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan is a “major land-repurposing initiative” in response to water shortages that “force large-scale land fallowing across the San Joaquin Valley,” the water district said in a statement.
The Westlands Water District is the nation’s largest agricultural water district, encompassing 1,000 square miles and providing water to 700 farms with an average size of 875 acres, in western Fresno and Kings Counties…