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Solaren, Inc. is a Southern California startup corporation created to use solar energy for terrestrial electricity usage. [1] [2] In 2009, the company had a contract under negotiation with Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California to deliver 200 megawatts of power for at least 15 years, [3] starting in 2016. [4]
The project, which had a total cost of about $2.18 billion, [32] received a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the United States Department of Energy. [33] The facility developed contracts to sell about two-thirds of the power it generated to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), and the rest to Southern California Edison (SCE).
The project was financed by California Flats Solar LLC, a subsidiary of First Solar, and will use the company's thin-film technology. [1] Construction began in 2016. [2] [3] The project was sold to Swiss asset-management outfit Capital Dynamics in August 2017.
The project was developed by Rice Solar Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of SolarReserve, LLC. The facility would have consisted of about 17,000 heliostats [5] focused onto a central receiver tower with an overall height of 653 feet (199 m), [6] and an integrated thermal storage system, which uses molten salt, a mixture of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate, as heat carrier.
The project is located adjacent to the 235 MW Blythe Solar Energy Center, together forming a larger 485 MW complex. The 550MW Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is located approximately 40miles west in Riverside County. The 450 MW Desert Quartzite project by First Solar, which got preliminary approval in early 2020, [3] is also in the area. [4]
The Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 (AVSR1) is a 230 megawatt (MW AC) photovoltaic power plant near Lancaster within Antelope Valley, in the western Mojave Desert, Southern California. It uses cadmium telluride modules made by the US thin-film manufacturer First Solar. The project was developed by First Solar and later bought by Exelon ...
The Blythe Mesa Solar Power Project, also known as the Blythe Solar Energy Center, is a 235 megawatt (MW AC) photovoltaic power plant near the city of Blythe in Riverside County, California. [2] It occupies about 2,000 acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the Mojave Desert .
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space. These entities have invested ...