Solar Dispatch

Filtered by category: Ivanpah Blogs

As a leading concentrating solar power technology company, we want to share our discoveries, perspective and comments on a regular basis. Here on our Solar Dispatch blog, subject-matter experts will periodically weigh in on a variety of topics, including power markets, enhanced oil recovery and industrial applications, policy, storage, environmental issues and project updates.    

1. Suspending the Hidden Hills Solar Project Permitting Application

   April 4, 2013 by Keely Wachs

   On Wednesday, April 3, we informed the California Energy Commission (CEC) that we’re suspending the permit application for the Hidden Hills Solar Energy Generating System project.

   
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   BrightSource’s Heliostat Technology

   January 3, 2013 by Alyssa Cauble

   The Ivanpah solar project just celebrated installation of the 100,000^th heliostat, but what, you may ask, is a heliostat?

   
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   Ivanpah Featured in NY Times Magazine

   June 18, 2012 by Kristin Hunter

   June 18, 2012 - The Ivanpah project has been featured in the New York Times Magazine! Twelve incredible black and white images by photographer Jamey Stillings are compiled to create a breathtaking photo essay of the project’s construction progress.  

   

4. Ivanpah and the DOE Loan Guarantee Program

   June 5, 2012 by Keely Wachs

   June 5, 2012 - A recent story in the Wall Street Journal discusses BrightSource Energy’s push to finalize a loan guarantee for the Ivanpah project. To be perfectly clear, we did urge the government to make a decision on our loan guarantee application.  

   
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   Translocating Desert Tortoise at the Ivanpah Project

   April 26, 2012 by Kristin Hunter

   At our Ivanpah project, we are working closely with the state and federal agencies to provide the highest levels of care for the desert tortoise found on the project site.