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SunPower to Partner With CO Springs Utilities On 6MW Plant $SPWRA
SunPower just announced that they will be partnering with ColoradoSprings Utilities to build a 6MW solar power plant at the U.S. Air Force Academy. It should be up and running by 2011, and will removeapproximately 9,400 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. ===> Click Here For Your FREE Sunpower Technical Analysis In a [...]
Green Means Go for Tessera’s Calico Solar Plant
The California Energy Commission has approved has approved Tessera Solar’s 663.5-megawatt (MW) solar thermal plant to be built in southern California’s San Bernardino County. Like many other plants being built on California desert land,the Calico Plant has raised questions its potential impact on wildlifein the area. This time, environmentalists are worried about the bighornsheep that live in the mountains just [...]
SunPower, Iberdrola to Build Colorado Solar Energy Plant $SPWRA
A plan is in the works to transform a 216-acre chunk of empty private land in Colorado’s Alamosa County into a 30-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) plant that would be producing power by the end of 2012. SunPower Corp. — a California-based solar power company that hasinstalled or contracted over 600 MW of solar energy around [...]
BrightSource Lands $300M for Its Ivanpah Plant
NRG Solar signed a letter of intent to partner with BrightSource toconstruct, finance, own and operate the 392-MW Ivanpah plant. NRG willbecome the lead investor, although Bechtel (the EPC firm) will also bean equity investor. As illustrated in our CSP Tracker, Ivanpah has all the necessary permits, so the only remaining hold-up will be financing. [...]
British Firm developing South Jersey Solar Plant
Twenty-one acres of brownfield in South Jersey will be a 5-megawatt solar farm by the end of the first quarter of next year, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. British chemical manufacturer Johnson Matthey will develop the project in WestDeptford and purchase the power it generates for 20 years. Constellation Energy will finance and maintain the photovoltaic [...]
Suntech Opens First U.S. Solar Production Plant $STP
Suntech Power (STP) first announced it was opening a US solar manufacturing plant back in January and now it’s official. The company announced on Friday that it has begun production at its new plant in Goodyear, Arizona with an initial capacity of 30MW with a plan to expand to 50MW next year and to 120MW [...]
Suntech Opens 1st US Solar Production Plant $STP
Suntech Power (STP) first announced it was opening a US solar manufacturing plant back in January and now it’s official. The company announced on Friday that it has begun production at its new plant in Goodyear, Arizona with an initial capacity of 30MW with a plan to expand to 50MW next year and to 120MW [...]
Suntech Opens 1st US Solar Production Plant $STP
Suntech Power (STP) first announced it was opening a US solar manufacturing plant back in January and now it’s official. The company announced on Friday that it has begun production at its new plant in Goodyear, Arizona with an initial capacity of 30MW with a plan to expand to 50MW next year and to 120MW [...]
Tessera Submits Second Proposal for Colorado Solar Plant
After having its initial proposal for a 200-megawatt (MW) solarfacility in Colorado’s San Luis Valley rebuffed on account of noiseconcerns from neighbors, Houston-based Tessera Solar is trying again.This time, the utility scale solar developer is proposing a 145-MW plant in the same Saguache County region. The plant would take up over 1,500 acres in the San Luis [...]