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Sun Miner is a concentrating solar power development company focusing on the deployment of large-scale electric generating systems. The goal of Sun Miner is to dramatically increase the beneficial use of solar in Arizona.

Sun Miner believes that Arizonans possess a great untapped desire to have solar be a significant contributor to their energy well-being, and that persistent political, technical and business efforts can cause that desire to be realized.

The firm’s approach is to mine the best ideas available from many sources and synthesize them into practical solutions. Its preferred technology for the near term is the solar trough-type system characterized by the SEGS plants in California’s Mohave Desert. As a starting point, an Arizona Solar Energy Improvement District plan has been drafted for discussion. This document contains background on the origin of Sun Miner.

Arizona should be leading the other western United States to achieve the Western Governors Association's target for 1,000 megawatts of concentrating solar power in the desert Southwest by 2010, especially as Governor Napolitano becomes the head of the WGA in June of this year.

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