[Timber Rattler]

[rktman]

SHOCKING! Well, maybe not so much. Maybe they shouldn’t try to activate them at night.

[pallis]

The left will solve the problem by giving the company more grant dollars.

[MeshugeMikey]

shades......of solyndra...

i see a bailout in the offing....

[V_TWIN]

“One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn’t shining as much as expected.”

Somehow this is due to global warming no doubt. /s/

[kosciusko51]

It seems like some of the basic engineering and contingency planning was missed in the development of this site.

[glock rocks]

Operators initially expected to need steam from gas-powered boilers for an hour a day during startup. After operations began, they found they needed to keep boilers running more than four times longer - an average of 4 1/2 hours a day.

State energy regulators in August approved the plant's request to increase the natural gas it is allowed to burn by 60 percent.

Paging ManBearPig...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

You get more electricity from solar panels by putting Skittles on them and watering with Unicorn pee.

[Scrambler Bob]

The sun isn’t shining as much as expected. —

Yeah, the sun is wasting all its sunshine making global warming, not making light.

We need an executive order. SUN: make more light.

[DoughtyOne]

With all this gorebal worming, wouldn’t you think there would be three times the normal sunlight?

[PROCON]

The Erf is Doooomed...

[right way right]

They should just add some hamster wheel generators to the system.
Those little suckers love to run on their wheels at night.

[MNDude]

“Fromer said it was surprising that so much additional gas is needed, adding that it “signals to me they have some very large problems that they are going to need to sort out.”

HA!

[rdcbn]

It’s the Sun’s fault!

[hinckley buzzard]

350,000 mirrors the size of garage doors that need to be kept clean in the dusty desert...now we know why they want amnesty for all those uneducated illegals. .

[BlueStateRightist]

C’mon...what’s $1.6 billion to you anyway? It’s the IDEA that counts.

[ArtDodger]

Seems like Dick Cheney and his Infernal Weather Machine (trademarked) are up to their old tricks again...

[rdcbn]

I both love and hate that solar plant.

I love it because it is a totally cool engineering marvel and a triumph of technology.

I hate because it is an expensive, ill conceived project that was doomed from the start because it never could perform it's intended goal of commercial grade large scale solar power generation.

It's a huge technological white elephant that kills birds by burning them out of sky like a death ray and it never should have been built in the first place.

It was built because it was intended to be a no risk, inside job project paid for with taxpayer money given for free to Obama Cronies and made profitable by corresponding government purchase contracts at what should have guaranteed a constant operating profit to the Obama Cronies on the power plant Obama paid them build with no out of pocket money on the part of the crony “investors”

Now the project is performing so badly the investors want the government to bail them out of the investment they never paid for in the first place

Welcome to life in Obama’s Banana Republic

[MulberryDraw]

but the globull warming crowd is sure the earth is warming and not cooling...

[Robert357]

Liberals must think this is all because of global warming and pollution. We must curtail all other forms of energy so this form of energy can prosper....so says the ruling elite!

[dfwgator]

Maybe some global warming would help.