The population of California is approaching 40 million, and despite the state’s reputation for overpriced real estate and choking traffic, about 90% of the state’s people live only 10% of the land. For those who see the state as a bellwether of clean energy’s future, it is easy to point … [continued]
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]
U.S. News has investigated just how many birds are killed by different energy sources each year, and the figures do not look good for coal utilities. Over the years that renewable energy has developed into a mainstay of the Western energy grid there have been a number of attempts to … [continued]
We’re hearing more and more about gigawatts in reference to the scale of renewable energy installations and clean energy generating capacity. Josh and Amber at 1Sun4All.com decided to make a new infographic presenting a bit of information on gigawatts and installed solar capacity. Check it out: What is one gigawatt of clean renewable … [continued]
Despite publishing about 35 articles on solar power in the past week, there are still a ton of big solar news stories we couldn’t get to but that we wouldn’t want you to miss. Here’s a quick summary of them: 25MW California Solar Project Now Under Construction: SolarWorld has … [continued]
BrightSource Energy, which is working on a massive solar power plant in California, the Ivanpah solar power plant (one we’ve written about numerous times over the years), filed to build two more large-scale power plants in California on Friday. These are each supposed to be almost twice the size of Ivanpah, 250 MW compared to 130 MW.
Blythe Solar Power Project Approved in Mojave Desert, California Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the long-awaited approval of a 1,000-megawatt solar power plant on public lands in the Mojave Desert in southern California yesterday. This project, which will (temporarily) be the world’s largest solar farm is expected to generate enough … [continued]
BrightSource got a boost from the Department of Energy this week with a loan guarantee of $1.37 billion to help build three concentrated solar thermal power plants producing 400 MW of clean solar power in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. [social_buttons] However, it is predicated upon BrightSource meeting the … [continued]
When you look at the entire desert area available in the map of the California desert (below), you see that most of the red dots that signify a solar application under review are actually outside the two areas that Senator Feinstein proposes to set aside.
[social_buttons] A contract has just been signed to deliver 600 gigawatthours a year of solar power between the US division of Spain’s giant Abengoa, and PG&E in California. Abengoa Solar hopes to succeed where BrightSource recently failed to overcome local NIMBY issues and Senator Feinstein, in its plan to site … [continued]
