Showing posts with label Ivanpah Dry Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivanpah Dry Lake. Show all posts
August 17, 2014

'Alarming' Rate Of Bird Deaths As New Solar Plants Scorch Animals In Mid-Air

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Solar panels stand at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, March 10, 201...
March 18, 2014

Airplane pilots hit by ‘nearly blinding’ glare from massive California solar facility

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Heliostats reflect sunlight onto boilers in towers during the grand opening of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave ...
March 6, 2014

Enviro Group Sues to Block New Desert Solar Projects Over Threat to Tortoises

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Adult desert tortoise with four juveniles. (Lake Mead NRA/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T he environmenta...
February 19, 2014

Government approves two more big solar projects for the East Mojave

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Stateline and Silverstate South projects near existing BrightSource plant. By David Danelski Riverside Press-Enterprise T he area ar...
February 13, 2014

A Huge Solar Plant Opens, Facing Doubts About Its Future

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A field of mirrors at the Ivanpah power plant in California. The plant took almost four years to complete and stretches over more than fiv...
February 1, 2014

Solar plant powers up, turns on desert show

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BrightSource Tower surrounded by mirrors near Ivanpah Dry Lake. By David Danelski Orange County Register Without fanfare, one of the bi...
January 30, 2014

Ivanpah Solar Project Quietly Goes Online -- Or Does It?

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Ivanpah Solar Electric generating System (Photo: torroid/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke Rewire | KCET.ORG News repo...
January 23, 2014

The tortoise and the flare: California solar power projects confront habitat impact

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Around the country, developers, policymakers and environmentalists are faced with balancing the need for clean energy with protection of th...
January 21, 2014

World's biggest solar plant may pave way for smaller-scale renewable future

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Vast desert solar farms helping to meet energy targets but environment and wildlife campaigners raise concerns BrightSource Energy's Iva...
September 25, 2013

Mojave Desert solar unit connected to electrical grid

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Ivanpah Solar, Solar Fields One, Two and Three: A view to the north of Ivanpah Solar under construction. Just out of view to the right is I...
July 29, 2013

$2.2 billion Ivanpah solar plant nears completion

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An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility with left to right Tower 1, 2 and 3, where heliostats installation is nearly completed....
July 25, 2013

Mojave Mirrors: World's Largest Solar Plant Ready to Shine

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The huge Ivanpah solar plant is part of a push to expand renewable energy on U.S. federal land. The developer took steps to relocate a pop...
July 2, 2013

Enviro Group Claims Ivanpah Solar Power comes at Nature’s Expense

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CBSLA.com MOJAVE DESERT — A national parks advocacy group claims that a massive solar power plant being constructed in the Mojave Desert,...
April 15, 2013

Sacrificial Land: Will renewable energy devour the Mojave Desert?

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Looking north towards the Ivanpah solar plant's eastern boiler tower in California. (Craig Dietrich) By Judith Lewis Mernit High Co...