At a wind farm near Palm Springs yesterday, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented the department’s long-awaited plans for both multi-energy renewables development and conservation within 22.5 million acres of the Mojave and other Southern California deserts. More than half the land lies within San Bernardino County. The … [continued]
For the first time ever, POWER Magazine has conferred its Plant of the Year award on renewables: the Ivanpah concentrating solar power plant in California.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Business Council hosted their 8th annual Sustainability Summit. California Governor Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti presented keynote speeches on the major topics in California- Energy and Water. Mayor Garcetti gave an excellent speech highlighting some of the work he’s doing to make … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. America’s solar industry is celebrating its most stellar year. The power capacity of installations has grown from a mere 45 MW in 2003 to 4,751 MW in 2013. As Rhone Resch, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), puts it, solar energy … [continued]
Originally published on The ECO Report. In 2010, concentrating solar power (CSP) projects like Ivanpah were heralded as the future of utility-scale solar projects. Spain and the US led the world in the development of this technology. Since then, they have largely fallen to the wayside in the wake of … [continued]
By Christian Roselund. The most essential measure of an electricity generation project is not its size, or its degree of technical innovation. It’s the output. And is this regard, Ivanpah has not yet arrived. Now that the fanfare surrounding the dedication of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Systems – the … [continued]
Solar energy is a critical solution to numerous crises we are facing today — it is vitalizing and preserving the little planet we populate. We need more people to become aware that now is the time for solar. The just-commissioned Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System sets the stage for The … [continued]
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Ari Phillips. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz marked the opening of the world’s largest solar thermal plant on Thursday in the Mojave Desert near the border of California and Nevada. The 392-MW Ivanpah project, developed by BrightSource Energy Co, started operating last month after six years … [continued]
You’re going to be hearing a lot about this one: today, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is officially dedicating the Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System. The massive new facility, now up and running at Ivanpah Dry Lake in California after a series of successful shakedown tests, has set a record as … [continued]
By Christian Roselund A number of media reports have stated that the massive Ivanpah solar thermal electric plant in California’s desert has recently come online. The truth is more complex. On February 5th, 2014, California hit another record for peak generation of large-scale solar, reaching 2.378 GW at noon. This … [continued]
