Filed from Houston
3/26/2008 9:23:56 PM GMT
Update: 09/23/09
I was reading an article from the New York Times on Sunday about this massive project, the main gist of the article is that, the area where these folks wanted to build the solar plant was an area which had been donated by a trust to the United Stated Federal Government during the Clinton Administration, it was a non-development donation. During the Bush Administration the land designation was changed so that is could be developed. Well the folks who made the donation were understandably up in arms about this unseen set of events which started to unfold upon their donated land.
The bottom line is that the project developers have now agreed to move the project, so now they will have to find another location.
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USA: Alternative energy supplier FPL Energy has filed an application to construct, own and operate a 250 MW solar plant in the Mojave Desert, to be named the Beacon Solar Energy Project. The proposed plant will be located on a 2,000 acre site in eastern Kern County, California. The plant is planned to have over 500,000 parabolic mirrors assembled in rows to receive and concentrate solar energy, producing steam for powering a steam turbine generator. The generator will produce electric power for delivery to the nearby electric grid.
The company expects to begin production on the project in late 2009, and take two years to complete construction of the plant. FPL Energy has set a goal of adding at least 600 MW of new solar by 2015, and has leased, optioned or owns land in the west and southwest United States for this purpose.
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