The first 500+ megawatt solar plant in the US, and the largest solar plant in the world came online recently. Called the Topaz Solar Farm, it was built on the Carrizo Plain, located between San Francisco and Los Angeles, due east of San Luis Obispo. The farm is now producing 550 megawatts, enough to keep the lights on in 160,000 homes and displace 370,000 tons of carbon emissions.
When I was a kid farmers baled hay and milked cows. Now they herd photons as well. Sometimes there really is progress.