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Google is ‘cleaning up’ its act with a vengeance. Google’s plans to shore up its renewable energy commitments got a further boost with the Brightsource Ivanpah project; a 450 foot tall solar power tower located in California’s Mojave Desert. The $168 million dollar investment is reported to be the largest in Google’s history when it comes to renewable energy.
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Google Spends Quarter of a Billion Dollars on Clean Energy
Google recently announced a$168 million dollar investment in the Brightsource Ivanpah project, which is a 450 foot tall solar power tower located in California’s Mojave desert. This investment in solar, which was Google’s largest to date,brought the company’s investment in clean energy to a quarter of a billion dollars .Google aims to develop renewable energy such that it costs less than coal , and th eocmpany has committed to clean energy by 2030.
The US Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment for a $2.1 billion loan guarantee to support Units 1 and 2 of the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 484-megawatt solar thermal plant to be built in California. Sponsored by Solar Trust of America, the facility will be built adjacent to the City of Blythe in Riverside County and is expected to create over 1,000 construction jobs and approximately 80 operations jobs. The plant will help avoid an estimated 710,000-plus tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from over 123,000 vehicles. Units 1 and 2 of the Blythe development represent the first phase of a larger project that, when completed, will generate 1,000 megawatts of solar power using parabolic trough technology. Units 1 and 2 will include HelioTroughT collectors, which feature a larger yet simplified design, making them less expensive to build and install, and more efficient than earlier trough technology. The project will be the first concentrating solar power (CSP) parabolic trough plant to use an air-cooled condenser unit, which will decrease water use by nearly 90 per cent compared with a water-cooled CSP facility. The project will sell all of its electricity output to Southern California Edison and will deliver power into the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) power grid. Read more here … Related posts: Google-backed project to double solar thermal in US California sees ‘world’s largest solar deal’ California OKs solar thermal contract
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Advanced solar project wins $2.1bn loan guarantee
Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment – Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming – 2009-09-24 – With sales growing 40 percent annually and costs falling rapidly, solar power has emerged as a core technology in America’s transition a clean energy economy. Solar energy brings opportunity in the form of new jobs and rapid technological development. It also presents potential new challenges in the way we use land and infrastructure and the way we distribute and store energy. Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing entitled, “Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment,” examining current issues in solar energy development. WITNESS LIST: Dr. Stephanie A.
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Solar Heats Up: Accelerating Widespread Deployment