While I'm not extremely keen on these sort of plants -- there's no real reason to centralize solar generation like this -- it's nice to see that solar's being taken seriously. Given recent advances in photovoltaic technology, the price is coming down enough for it to be put anywhere the sun shines. In other words, there's no reason to use up huge expanses of land when you can do the same thing on rooftops.

Still, any time new generating capacity comes from green tech, it's good news.

concentrated solar plants with the molten salt heat storage are the closest thing to a baseload application we'll see for solar for a long time, so i think csp's are outstanding. i definitely think it would be in the interests of all humans to adopt a culture of neighborhood/individual pv solar systems to decentralize. in the meantime though, anything is better than nothing.