Long-mired by regulatory issues and legal tangles, the enormous solar plant–jointly-owned by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy and Google–, opened for business today.
From the official news release:
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is now operational
and delivering solar electricity to California customers. At full
capacity, the facility’s trio of 450-foot high towers produces a gross
total of 392 megawatts (MW) of solar power, enough electricity to
provide 140,000 California homes with clean energy and avoid 400,000
metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equal to removing 72,000
vehicles off the road.
Sprawling
across a staggering 5 square miles of federal land near the
California-Nevada border, it looks damn beautiful. Just look at these
amazing images:
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