WASHINGTON — An enormous solar power project in the Nevada desert that would have been one of the world’s largest has been canceled, according to the Interior Department.

The reason for the cancellation was not immediately clear. But the project appeared to be the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s efforts to thwart the construction of solar and wind energy projects on millions of acres of public lands, predominantly in the American West.

The project, known as Esmeralda 7, would have comprised a network of solar panels and batteries across 118,000 acres of federally owned land in the Nevada desert northwest of Las Vegas. It was expected to produce up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy, enough to power nearly 2 million homes.

The developers of the project included NextEra Energy, one

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