The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week increased the budget for the California Solar Initiative (CSI) Program by $200 million in order to cover a budget shortfall. Thses actions implement Senate Bill (SB) 585 signed by Governor Brown on September 22, 2011. The amount Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), [...]
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week approved a Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) renewable energy power purchase agreement with Mojave Solar, LLC. The following provides a summary of the project: Generating Facility Mojave Solar Technology Solar thermal (wet cooled, trough, no storage) Contract Length 25 years Facility Capacity 250 megawatts Annual Deliveries [...]
Utility-scale solar project is creating hundreds of jobs and will generate clean, renewable electricity for 100,000 homes. NRG Energy, Inc. held a ceremony today to celebrate the formal groundbreaking of the 250-megawatt (MW) California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR). Construction of the San Luis Obispo County project commenced in September. First announced more than three years [...]
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Pratt & Whitney’s Waste Heat-to-Power Organic Rankine Cycle Solutions Now Eligible for the California Self-Generation Incentive Program State incentive program now includes ORC technology for Waste Heat-to-Power and CHP applications Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS), a world leader in Organic Rankine Cycle solutions for waste heat, biomass, geothermal and solar thermal power applications, announced [...]
PV Insider have announced nine case studies, including Soitec, SolFocus, Amonix, Skyline Solar and Cogentrix Energy, will be held at the 3rd Concentrated Photovoltaic Summit USA (14-15 November, San Jose) Following the successful release of the ‘CPV World Map 2011’, the 3rd Concentrated Photovoltaic Summit USA 2011 will take the next step and host a [...]
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted unanimously to approve the Renewable Auction Mechanism (RAM) program, which is designed to drive small- to mid-sized renewable energy development. This feed-in-tariff program will require investor-owned California utilities to purchase electricity from solar and other renewable energy systems up to 20 MW in size.
260 MW Of SolarReserve Solar Thermal Projects Proceed To Final Stages Of Financing SolarReserve, a developer of utility-scale solar power projects, says it is proceeding with purchases of long-lead materials and equipment as it advances in financing arrangements with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan-guarantee program for its Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in [...]
Cogenra Solar™, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems and renewable energy service solutions, has been awarded a $1.5 million research grant from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration (CSI RD&D) Program. The funding will support the accelerated development and commercial deployment of Cogenra’s proprietary solar cogeneration technology and will finance the [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, today announced that it has signed contracts with Siemens to purchase two steam turbine generators for use at its Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Today’s announcement follows BrightSource Energy’s purchase of its first Siemens steam turbine generator in December 2008 to be used at Ivanpah’s [...]
Solar Trust of America says its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received unanimous approval from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate its 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Thermal Power Project in Riverside County. This would be the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility in the world, the company says. The project [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that it has signed a series of contracts with Riley Power Inc., a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., for three boilers to be operated at its 392-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah project will couple Riley’s solar [...]
New approach brings lower-cost solar systems and low interest rates for solar loans to City of San Jose employees and retirees Members of the San Jose Credit Union, who are also City of San Jose employees and retirees, can now go solar more efficiently and cost effectively thanks to an innovative group buy program that [...]
Solar Millennium AG has hit another milestone in the permitting process for realizing its first parabolic trough power plants in the American southwest. Solar Millennium, LLC, the U.S. project development subsidiary of Solar Trust of America, today announced that its proposed Blythe Solar Power Project was recommended for final approval for licensing by the California [...]
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