Xcel Energy's Cameo unit will become the first coal-fired plant in the country to be linked to a solar-energy array. Xcel and Abengoa Solar, which will build the solar unit, broke ground on the $4.5 million project east of Grand Junction, Colorado on Thursday. The goal of the pilot study is to see how effectively a field of parabolic mirrors can cut the amount of coal used to generate electricity.
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