Dive Summary:

• President Obama's new comprehensive plan to combat carbon pollution, slow climate change, and develop home-grown energy includes building renewable energy on public lands to the tune of 20,000 megawatts (MW) by 2020, an increase from 10,000MW slated in Obama’s original goals.
• Monday, the U.S. Department of the Interior approved plans to build a 500MW wind farm on Arizona public lands.
• The project, proposed by BP Wind Energy North America, Inc., will install 243 wind turbines on Federal lands for the Mohave County Wind Farm in northwestern Arizona. The Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has identified 14 active renewable energy proposals to review in 2013 and 2014.

From the article:
“…Interior has approved 46 wind, solar and geothermal utility-scale projects on public lands since 2009, including associated transmission corridors and infrastructure to connect to established power grids.”