News - California

		Primoris Services Corporation Announces New CSP Contract Work Valued At Over $40 Million
		2013/05/16 The ARB Industrial Group was awarded a new contract for power block mechanical work at a 250MW Concentrated Solar Power plant near Hinkley, California.

		Concentrating Solar Power with Thermal Energy Storage in California
		2013/05/10 Researchers from the US NREL have calibrated the significant value that concentrating solar power (CSP) plants can add to an electric grid.

		Workshops to be held April 30 and May 1 for Palen Concentrating Solar Power Project Amendment
		2013/05/02 The proposed solar thermal project consists of two 250-MW concentrated solar power plants for a total of 500 MW.

		BrightSource Energy Helps Build Unique Concentrated Solar Power Plant
		2013/04/24 ISEGS is a 392 megawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) complex using more than 300,000 garage-door-size mirrors to focus the power of the sun on solar receivers atop power towers.

		Palen Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project cuts down the public land acreage by 572 acres
		2013/02/21 BrightSource says its redesign of Solar Millennium's original project cuts down the public land acreage by 572 acres.

		California finds environmental impacts to birds from Hidden Hills CSP project
		2013/02/13 Among the concerns cited are impacts to birds, Native American sites and a historic trail, and impacts to visual resources.

		SolarReserve CSP Project Receives Unanimous Approval From California Public Utilities
		2013/02/13 The Rice Solar Energy Project will be the first in California with energy storage, utilizing the world's most advanced solar thermal technology to provide reliable electricity, day and night.

		Concentrating Solar Power to be reborn in the Mojave
		2013/02/11 The example that Spain has set is being imitated around the world. India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission requires as many CSP plants as PV plants.

		Concentrated solar thermal power makes comeback in southeastern California
		2013/02/08 NextEra Energy’s 250-megawatt Genesis project, using solar trough technology without storage, could be the first to come online, later this year.

		BrightSource’s Heliostat Technology
		2013/02/04 The Ivanpah solar project just celebrated installation of the 100,000th heliostat, but what, you may ask, is a heliostat?

		CPUC Approves 150-MW Concentrating Solar Power Project in California
		2013/01/28 The solar project will be constructed on approximately 1,500 acres of private land near Blythe. The project will use a concentrated solar power (CSP) design with molten salt storage technology from Pratt & Whitney Rocket

		PPA extends completion date of Rice Concentrating Solar Power project from 2013 to 2016
		2013/01/27 The Rice Solar Energy project will utilize molten salt thermal storage, which will allow it to produce electricity after the sun has set or during cloudy periods.

		Abengoa selects Telvent technology for concentrated solar power plant
		2012/12/01 Telvent solutions will provide Abengoa with the most precise and adaptable tools to meet the unique needs of its concentrated solar power plant and parabolic troughs.

		BrightSource's Ivanpah CSP project 2/3 complete
		2012/11/10 When finished, Ivanpah will be the first large CSP project to be completed in the United States since the Solar Electric Generating Stations in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

		A Hot Time for California Solar Power Plants
		2012/11/08 BrightSource gets a split decision on tower PPAs and SunPower brings on PV.

		CPUC approves contracts for 790 MW of BrightSource CSP projects
		2012/11/02 Through one of the contracts, BrightSource will sell the electricity generated by Unit 2 of its Rio Mesa CSP project.

		CPUC Approves Two BrightSource Energy Contracts With Southern California Edison
		2012/11/02 BrightSource Energy, a leading concentrating solar thermal technology company, announced that the CPUC unanimously approved two amended BrightSource contracts with Southern California Edison (SCE).

		BrightSource Energy Raises More Than $80 Million of Additional Equity Financing
		2012/11/02 BrightSource Energy, a leading concentrating solar thermal technology company, has raised more than $80 million in additional equity financing.

		The Ivanpah CSP project is more than 60 percent complete
		2012/11/02 When completed in 2013, this series of 170,000 mirrors will power 140,000 California homes.

		California Energy Commission endorses Rio Mesa Concentrating Solar Power Plant
		2012/10/16 The Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Facility has been proposed by Oakland-based BrightSource Energy in Palo Verde Mesa in Riverside County, about 13 miles southwest of Blythe.