[sema4hacker]

The Wikipedia article says: "The plant burns natural gas each morning to commence operation... In 2014, the plant burned 868×109 British thermal units (254 GWh) of natural gas emitting 46,084 metric tons of carbon dioxide...".

I never knew until today that solar plants require fossil fuels.

[toomuchtodo]

Only solar thermal plants, solar PV plants do not require fossil generation for keeping an energy transfer medium hot, boilers, etc.