One of the most expensive green energy projects we have done in the history of the United States so far is that it is now borrowed after eating a large amount of taxpayers and killing thousands of birds. You can see it.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E) -Main Utility Company- announcement In January, a power purchase contract with the owner of Ivanpah Solar Power Facile in southwest California has ended. This is a large and unique solar project that received hundreds of dollars of subsidies started in 2014. The facility seems to be heading to the end after killing thousands of birds.
“PG & E has decided to save customer money by terminating the contract at this point,” said the company on January 17. Original owner of plants -Costs $ 2.2 billion To build -including Google and NRG Energy According to To Las Vegas Review Journal.
Los Angelel Staims It has been reported In 2016, the IVANPAH project killed an average of 6,000 birds each year, and some of the unfortunate creatures collide with the developed 40 -story tower, and others flew away from the prey and immediately incinerated. It was done. This project received a $ 1.6 billion guarantee from the Obama Energy (DOE), and received a 535 million dollar subsidy from the Ministry of Transportation of Obama (DOT), but could not reach the output level of the ad. It was. According to Analysis by Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow, a senior fellow of American Enterprise Institute (AEI). (Related: See Obama’s solar power plant incinerated birds and insects)
The three towers of the Ivanpah Solar Power System operated on July 23, 2014 in the Mohabe Desert in California near Prim, Nevada. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
“It was the future. Show how to save the planet. Zycher writes the project in AEI analysis.” This is possible from the public/private “partnership”, that is, the American style of the central plan. It was a large -scale demonstration. “
The Ivana Project is composed of three large towers surrounded by the field of a reflected mirror that concentrates sunlight on the tower. According to To DOE. Its energy is used to heat water into steam and drives the turbine that occurs.
The power produced by two of the three towers will not be purchased by PG & E. It is reported that Edison in Southern California, which buys the remaining power produced by the facility), is in contact with the owner of Ivanpah Solar Project and the federal government. Possibility of acquiring contracts with facilities, According to For AP communication. (Related: California spent more than $ 600 million for environmental reviews on high -speed rail lines that have not been built yet)
The IVANPAH SOLAR power generation system is a concentrated solar plant in the Mojave desert. It is located at the foot of Clark Mountain, California, over the state line of Primum, Nevada. (Photo: Paul Harris/Getty Images)
Two of the three units of “Ivanpah Solar Gonering Station UNITS 1 & 3, 386 [megawatt] With the support of the US Ministry of Energy, the facilities in the Mohabe Desert have completed negotiations with PG & E and have finished two long -term power agreements. Share with Daily Caller News Foundation. “The intensive solar power generation project was an innovative public -private partnership that unified private business and government agencies in the progress of renewable energy. When the power purchase contract was signed in 2009, the price was competitive. The units are more efficient, cost -effective and more flexible options, as solar power and battery storage over time. It will be abolished and will be able to potentially reuse the site for more conventional renewable energy production.
In addition to causing the death of a large number of birds, the reductioned sunlight, which is the center of the project operation, focuses on the wrong part of the tower and focuses on a small fire that is forced to close. It caused a serious problem. A few hours of plants. In addition, the project has gained a strong dullness that affects the pilot’s vision flying overhead.
This project was built to reduce emissions and provide energy from non -fossil fuel sources, and operate with a considerable amount of natural gas. According to To utility dive. In fact, the IVANPAH SOLAR project used a natural gas that was enough to acquire the California cap and trade emission emissions in 2014, but was not covered by policy to keep the gas burned at night. 。 Use of fossil fuels.
2016, local California News Outlet The PresS-ENTERPRISE It has been reported The amount of emissions from the use of natural gas at the facility increased by nearly 50 % in 2015, and the gas consumption in the first three quarter -quarters of 2016 increased by 7 % compared to the same period of the previous year.
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