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Solar development absorbing California farmland

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A 100 megawatt solar facility to be built in Chile by SunEdison for CAP Mining.

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Planning department records in four of the valley’s biggest farming counties show about 100 solar generation plants already proposed on roughly 40,000 acres, or about the equivalent of 470 Disneyland theme parks. Planners in Fresno County say their applications for solar outnumber the ones they received for housing developments during the boom days.