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Giant California Solar Star power plant enters service
2014-01-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Renewable power companies MidAmerican Solar and SunPower Corp said they have connected the first 57 megawatts to the power grid from California's 579-MW Solar Star solar power plant, one of the biggest in the United States. Their Solar Star project, which involves two plants in Kern and Los Angeles counties, are expected to power about 255,000 homes once complete, the two companies said in a release late on Thursday. "We are fulfilling our promise ... to help California meet its mandate to...
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110 MW Concentrated Solar Energy Power Plant Being Developed In Chile
2014-01-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The noted renewable-energy technology developer Abengoa recently announced its intent to construct a 110 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the South American country of Chile. The project - which represents the first CSP development in the country - recently received the go-ahead from Chiles Ministry of Energy and government agency for entrepreneurship (COFO) when Abengoa was awarded the tender for the 110 MW molten salt power technology plant. The CSP plant will utilize integrated...
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Abengoa bags 110MW Chilean solar thermal power tender
2014-01-13 01:00:00| Power Technology
Spanish company Abengoa has won contract to develop a 110MW solar-thermal power plant using tower technology with 17.5 hours of thermal energy storage using molten salts in the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile.
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Solar power lights up DC communities
2014-01-12 17:57:53| IT Services - Topix.net
In 2006, Anya Schoolman decided to invest in solar panels for her Mount Pleasant home in Northwest.
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After a building boom, solar energy's prospects now aren't as sunny
2014-01-12 14:38:49| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Five years after the Obama administration's renewable energy initiative touched off a building boom of large-scale solar power plants across the desert Southwest, the pace of development has slowed to a crawl, with a number of companies going out of business and major projects canceled for lack of financing. Of the 365 federal solar applications since 2009, just 20 plants are on track to be built. Only three large-scale solar facilities have gone online, two in California and one in Nevada. The...
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