Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings has agreed to buy a solar power farm in California worth $2 Billion. MidAmerican Energy Holdings will take over Topaz Solar Farm, which is expected to produce enough power to run 160,000 homes when it is up and running in 2015.The farm is halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is the world's second-largest photovoltaic plant under construction and is expected to generate 550-megawatts of electricity or about half the power of a nuclear reactor.

MidAmerican, which is part of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway empire, is the largest wind energy provider in the US where it operates more than a dozen wind farms. MidAmerican sealed the deal for Topaz a day after the seller, First Solar, failed to secure a US government loan guarantee for the project. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. First Solar will continue to build the farm on behalf of Berkshire and is projected to open in early 2015.

Analysts suggested Buffett is moving from wind to solar power to take advantage of lucrative tax breaks. Gerard Reid, an analyst at Jefferies, said: "The reason for the move from wind to solar is very simple. Tax credits for wind in the US expire at the end of next year, while solar ones run till 2015." Greg Abel, chief executive officer of MidAmerican, said: "[Topaz] demonstrates that solar energy is a commercially viable technology without the support of governmental loan guarantees."