I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared on November 30, 2010. With NRG Energy’s announcement on Tuesday that it will invest $450 million investment in a California photovoltaic project, the New Jersey-based power provider has pledged a total of $750 million for big solar plants in the past two months. A new [...]
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Report: U.S. utility-scale photovoltaic industry set to boom
Posted in alternative energy, NRG Energy, solar energy, solar power plants on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NRG to acquire SunPower solar farm for $450 million
Posted in environment, NRG Energy, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, SunPower, Uncategorized, tagged NRG Energy on January 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared on November 30, 2010. A subsidiary of NRG Energy on Tuesday said it will invest up to $450 million in a 250-megawatt photovoltaic power plant to be built by Silicon Valley’s SunPower on the central California coast. The New Jersey-based power provider, which operates a [...]
Calico solar project delayed, enviros may sue over wildlife
Posted in alternative energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Tessera Solar I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared: The California Energy Commission has temporarily withdrawn approval of a controversial solar power plant by NTR’s Tessera Solar after opponents protested that the 663.5-megawatt Calico project had been improperly licensed. California aims to get a third of its electricity from renewable energy [...]
Utility makes big bets on solar technology
Posted in alternative energy, Amonix, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Amonix I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared: As solar panel prices have plummeted over the past year, photovoltaic power plants have become a more attractive option for utilities under pressure to meet renewable energy targets. Case in point: Late last week utility Southern California Edison announced it had signed contracts [...]
China in joint venture to build solar power plants in U.S.
Posted in solar energy, solar power plants, SolarReserve, tagged GCL Solar Energy, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, Kevin Smith, Yumin Liu on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I made my debut on Reuters on Thursday with a scoop on one of China’s biggest solar companies forming a joint venture with California’s SolarReserve to build photovoltaic power plants in the United States: A subsidiary of China’s GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd has formed a joint venture with SolarReserve, a California developer, [...]
The Smithsonian of solar power
Posted in solar energy, solar power plants, Uncategorized, tagged CleanPath Ventures, Matt Cheney, PVUSA on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Wednesday, I follow up my story on community solar power plants: In an article in the special Energy section of The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about a developer who wants to sell “garden plots” in a 15-megawatt photovoltaic farm in Davis, Calif., so [...]
Saving the desert tortoise from solar power plants
Posted in BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, environment, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged desert tortoise, Ivanpah, Mercy Vaughn, Peter Woodman on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In the New York Times on Wednesday, I follow up my story on solar power plants and desert tortoises: In an article in The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about how the fortunes of big solar power plants in the desert Southwest can hinge on the way developers handle imperiled [...]
Desert tortoise sets pace for solar power projects
Posted in BrightSource Energy, endangered species, energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged desert tortoise, Ivanpah on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times special Energy report, I write about how the success of large-scale solar power plants being built in the desert Southwest depends on how developers deal with the imperiled desert tortoise and other wildlife: NIPTON, Calif. — On the construction site of the $2 billion Ivanpah solar power [...]
Saving trees with communty solar power plants
Posted in solar energy, solar power plants, Uncategorized, tagged Calif., CleanPath Ventures, Davis, Matt Cheney, Miitch Sears, SMUD on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times special Energy report, I write about how community solar power plants offer residents a chance to own photovoltaic arrays without putting panels on their roofs — or cutting down trees: DAVIS, Calif. — In this environmentally conscious college town, thousands of bicyclists commute each day through a [...]
Why the green energy revolution needs the smart grid
Posted in alternative energy, environment, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged Sacramento Municipal Utility District on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. If you want a birds-eye view of the future of power, scramble up to the roof of a 562,089-square-foot warehouse in Ontario, a city that sits in the smoggy heart of Southern California’s Inland Empire east of Los Angeles. On a roof [...]
