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The Office for Territorial Management (BLM) from U.S. has changed yesterday the plan to halt more solar energy projects in six states from the western federation.

At the end of May, BLM has imposed a moratorium to start studying the impact of projects. They had to take place over a period of 22 months and to analyse the impact of environmental, economic and social systems solar it would have had on public territories of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

Before the moratorium to enter into force at the end of May, the government has received about 130 proposals for development projects of 4,000 square kilometers of land, according to BLM coordinator for impact studies, Linda Resseguie. These projects have the potential to generate about 70 billion watts of electricity, enough to feed 20 million U.S. homes.

“We’ve got know the concerns expressed regarding with our decision to postpone the new solar energy projects, we thought better and decided to act in the sense of acceptance of these development projects,” said BLM director, James Caswell.

BLM governmental agency controls about 13% of the area of the United States.