Tag Archives: land
BLM Restrictions Cause Solar Thermal to Seek Private Land
It appears as though bureaucracy at the federal level is killing some solar thermal projects out West, delaying others, or scaling themdown. Companies that have been depending upon the Bureau of LandManagement to approve solar thermal projects on federal land have foundthemselves the target of environmentalists working to protect thesurrounding ecosystems from the impacts of [...]
LDK Solar Inks 20MW Solar Plant Deal With Uni Land Of Italy (LDK)
LDK Solar (LDK) has landed a 20MW solar plant deal with Uni Landof Italy. LDK will develop the plants in 2010 and 2011 and engineer,procure and construct the plants as well as supply the solar modules. Uni Land will finance the operation. It’s also being announced thatUni Land has purchased a 1MW plant from LDK [...]
Solar Land Bank Introduces Solar Energy Site Database
Solar Land Bank LLC, a San Francisco-based developer of turnkey sites for renewable energy power generators, has launcheda solar energy site database. The database is designed to serve as aone-stop resource for energy production companies looking for sitesthat are available for the construction of solar PV developments. Thedatabase contains detailed site information, allowing users to [...]
Solar Energy Initiatives secures land to build 100 MW solar park in California
Solar Energy Initiatives Inc., executing on a grass roots campaign,“RENEW THE NATION”, to help redeploy a portion of the US work force andfocus on reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels by sellingsolar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) technologies, announced that theCompany’s wholly owned subsidiary, Solar Park Initiatives, signed acontract securing land for the design, construction [...]
First Solar Buys Land Option From Ausra for Topaz Project (FSLR)
First Solar has purchased a land option from Ausra, a deal that First Solar believes will help it secure regulatory approval for a 550-megawatt solar farm in California. Ausra had an option to buy land for developing a proposed 177-megawatt solar thermal power plant in San Luis ObispoCounty. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company decided to [...]
BrightSource Solar Expands On Coyote Land In Nevada
Following recent news that environmentalists lobbied to have a solar energy project cancelled in Californiadue to fears it would ruin protected land in the Mojave Desert,BrightSource, the company in question, made its announcement today thatit has other plans up its sleeve –– to expand its output in anotherstate: From a press release: “BrightSource Energy, Inc., [...]
BrightSource Debacle in the Desert: Can Solar Power, Conservation, and Sustainability Co-Exist?
On Thursday, September 17, BrightSourceformally announced that they are abandoning efforts to build a solarfarm on 5,000 acres of public land in the Mohave desert near Ludlow,California. Though the announcement ended months of contentious – and at times, bitter – conflict between a well funded and well managed solar venture and a committed and respected [...]
BrightSource’s Mojave Desert Solar Project Result Terminated Due To Conflict
It’s been a turbulent week for solar in California. First, GovernorSchwarzenegger rejects legislation that lawmakers have toiled over forthe past nine months in favor of his own executive order. Now Oakland, CA-based BrightSource Energy Inc. has shelved its proposal for a controversial 500-megawatt solar thermal plant in a swath of Mojave Desert land known as [...]
Solar Companies Head For The West
More than150 years after the pioneers saddled their horses andsharpened their pickaxes for the frontier, the land of the AmericanWest is being rushed again—but this time it’s not for gold (or ManifestDestiny). After Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Senate majorityleader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced in late June federal initiatives to accelerate the development of solar [...]