David Martin

A Rustbelt Revival: From Doom to Boom

With problems as diverse as water shortage, crazily extensive suburbs and massive residential property overpricing, the sun belt has issues that the Midwest may avoid.
Good call.

First Solar 'Outsources' New Facility to the USA

In common with most commentators, the author hopelessly confuses installed capacity with output - the sun does not shine at night!
You can reckon on the average output of a solar plant in a good location being around 1/5th of installed capacity, so the 800MW mentioned would come down to around 160MW - a fraction of the output of most coal plants.
Similar considerations apply to many published cost figures - often installed capacity figures are quoted, and you actually get a lot less power for a lot of money.
The renewable energy field is full of sharks.