PROJECT SUMMARY, Owners, BrightSource Energy, NRG Energy, Google ; PROJECT SUMMARY, Location, Ivanpah Dry Lake, California ; FINANCIAL SUMMARY, Loan Program, Title XVII ; FINANCIAL SUMMARY, Loan Type, Loan Guarantee ; FINANCIAL SUMMARY, Loan Amount, $1.6 Billion ; FINANCIAL SUMMARY, Issuance Date, April 2011 ; ENERGY SUMMARY, Operation Status, Operating ; ENERGY SUMMARY, Generation Capacity, 392 MW ; ENERGY SUMMARY, Projected Annual Generation, 940,000 MWh ; ECONOMIC IMPACT, Permanent U.S. Jobs Supported, 61 ; ECONOMIC IMPACT, U.S. Construction Jobs Supported, 1,000 ; CLIMATE BENEFIT, CO 2 Emissions Prevented Annually, 500,000 Metric Tons ; NOTES, All information up-to-date. Last updated June 2017. 1 Approximate amount of the loan facility approved at closing including principal and any capitalized interest. 2 Calculated using the project's and NREL Technology specific capacity factors. For cases in which NREL's capacity factors do not encompass project's specific design and operation, project specific capacity factors are used. 3 Estimated at the time of closing., All information up-to-date. Last updated June 2017. 1 Approximate amount of the loan facility approved at closing including principal and any capitalized interest. 2 Calculated using the project's and NREL Technology specific capacity factors. For cases in which NREL's capacity factors do not encompass project's specific design and operation, project specific capacity factors are used. 3 Estimated at the time of closing.
[27][28][21] View of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility from the Yates Well Road exit of the I-15 Freeway. The largest investor in the project was NRG Energy, a generating company based in...
Last week the California Public Utilities Commission gave the beleaguered Ivanpah project, the world’s largest concentrated solar facility, one year to increase its electricity production...
United States Department of the Interior ; APR 1 5 2011 In Reply Refer to: 3031 (P) CACA 048668, 049502, 049503 and 049504 CADOOO · DECISION Immediate Temporary Suspension of Activities Issued · On October 7, 2010, BLM approved four right of way grants for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project. Grant CACA 49502, issued to Solar Partners I, II, and VIII, authorizes the use and occupancy of approximately 246 acres of public land for the Construction Logistics Area and common sha...
July 26, 2017 - Nipton, CA- Contracted workers clean Heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Project, owned by NRG Energy, Bright Source Energy,Bechtel and Google. Over 300,000 software-controlled mirrors...
News reports are saying that the world's largest concentrating solar facility went online in California's desert at the beginning of the month. But figures from the state's grid operator suggest that solar thermal power production in California actually cratered for most of the month. According to a piece by reporter David Danelski on the website of the Riverside Press-Enterprise , the 370-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System near the Mojave National Preserve went online at the begi...
So what’s the solution? The Clark County Department of Aviation’s response is two-pronged: first, squeeze as much as possible out of the airport’s existing footprint, and second, build a new airport in the next 13 years in the Ivanpah Valley just north of Primm and 30 miles south of Reid. ; The Ivanpah project — now called the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport — was first envisioned 24 years ago through federal legislation that allowed for the sale of 6,500 acres of federally owned land in the Ivanpah Valley to Clark County for a future airport. ; But nearly a quarter century after President Bill Clinton signed the Ivanpah Valley Airport Public Lands Transfer Act into law, Southern Nevada’s second major airport is still just an empty plot of desert land along Interstate 15. An initial environmental impact statement on Ivanpah was halted in 2010 because of the recession and declining visitation to Las Vegas.
Only 44 birds were killed by solar radiation at Ivanpah since the project went on-line in December, he said, while millions are regularly killed by things like urban skyscrapers and...
The Ivanpah plant uses more than 170,000 mirrors mounted to the ground to reflect sunlight to... Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images A federally backed, $2.2 billion solar project in the...
The Ivanpah solar thermal project consists of 5.4 square miles of high quality habitat for the Endangered Species Act protected desert tortoise, a fact that developers (and some investors) underest…