The Bureau of Land Management authorized EDF Renewable Energy Inc.’s Palen Solar Project, a 500-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility that would span 3,478 acres of federal lands in Riverside County, California. The project, expected to come online in 2020, would be located in the bureau’s Solar Energy Zone and Development Focus Area that has been designated for utility-scale renewable energy development. The bureau said the project is expected to result in $1 billion private infrastructure spending with $67.3 million in indirect economic benefits annually during the construction period. EDF Renewable Energy Inc. is a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles S.A.