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another datapoint - Desert Sunlight, California - 550MW - construction started in 2011, finished in 2015

• contingencies 10y ago
  "Desert Sunlight received a federal loan of nearly $1.5 billion" http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/10/worlds-largest-solar-plant-california-riverside-county/23159235/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/10/worlds-largest... .. ie. total cost >1.5B