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Distinction Between Offshore Wind And Oil Drilling Confuses Republicans
Here’s one you might not believe: Just a couple of years after the godawful Deepwater Horizon/BP oil disaster, which killed 11 people, caused billions in economic damage and gushed millions of barrels...
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What The Flux: BrightSource Heats Up Solar Tower
Two years and four months after the project broke ground, the massive Ivanpah power-tower solar energy plant in the California desert is heating water. BrightSource Energy said that this week, for the...
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Electric Vehicles Become A Grid Power Source
There’s significant progress to report on an idea that could transform electric vehicles from a potential grid destabilizer to a helpful piece in the energy storage puzzle. A joint venture between the...
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California’s Biggest Solar PV Plant In High Gear
NRG Energy did a ribbon-cutting at the Alpine solar power plant in California on Friday, officially opening the largest operating PV plant (for now) in a state with more PV than any other. But as NRG...
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Houston Becoming A Green Power Glutton
Texas is an energy enigma. It’s oil country, but there’s more wind power in the state than anywhere in the U.S. It’s sunny, but has been slow to embrace solar on a big scale. And then there’s Houston,...
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749,088 Solar Panels In Place At California Site
It’s the equivalent of, oh, about 50,000 home solar photovoltaic systems – 749,088 panels. They’re all in place now in San Luis Obispo County at the 250-megawatt California Valley Solar Ranch....
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Giant Solar Tower In California Powers Up
Ivanpah, the giant “power tower” concentrating solar project backed by a government loan guarantee and Google, among others, is apparently ready to rock ’n’ roll. Lead owner NRG Energy announced on...
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Huge US-Backed Solar Plant At Full Power
It’s official. The loan-guarantee-backed 250-megawatt California Valley Solar Ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., is fully commissioned and operating at a whopping capacity of 250 megawatts,...
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Ivanpah, World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant, Is Online
Whether you see it as a brash and impressive American feat of energy engineering in the tradition of Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, or a blight on nature in the tradition of, uh, Hoover and Grand Coulee...
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How The Ivanpah Solar Plant ‘Powers 140,000 Homes’
It was a phrase repeated a thousand times last week: The newly dedicated Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will generate enough electricity “to power 140,000 homes,” the stories went. But what...
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