From a post on another thread:
To: Jim Robinson
maybe there’s a clue here somewhere. Farmers, ranchers, miners, etc, who are near infrastructure, can be pushed off their land easier than trying to locate into an area with litle infrastructure. Water is an important element to this:
https://www.acgov.org/cda/planning/landuseprojects/documents/Distributed_vs_Utility_Scale.pdf
“Physically possible to construct in urbanized settings, but the difficulty of coordination of many landowners and the probably substantial costs of permitting in urban zones would be prohibitive at present.”
“Finally, the presence of water rights for agriculture and the potential loss of those rights in the event of onsite agricultural dormancy could be an obstacle to eventual ag restoration and thus to permitting of the solar facility. Various other ordinances and policies on biological, cultural and visual resources are important, along
with water conservation policies if the proposed installation is a thermal installation (which require large amounts of water, unlike PV installations).”
... received a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee from a program that drew controversy for its $535 million loan guarantee to help Solyndra build a solar panel factory.
NRG Energy NRG -1.35% bought the project from SunPower in 2011... NRG is co-owner of... the Ivanpah project ...being brought online by BrightSource Energy.
Ivanpah also has benefited from the same federal loan guarantee program. The program’s two other completed solar power projects are the 280-megawatt Solana by Abengoa Solar in Arizona and the 150-megawatt Mesquite Solar project in Arizona by Sempra Generation.
83 posted on 4/17/2014 4:21:48 PM by blueplum
BrightSource Energy is another corrupt Harry Reid deal:
Reid fundraises at offices of solar energy company
Nancy Watzman August 31, 2010, 11:19 a.m.
http://politicalpartytime.org/blog/2010/08/31/reid-fundraises-at-offices-of-solar-energy-company/
Excerpt:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D., Nev., is scheduled to be in California fundraising this Thursday at the Oakland offices of BrightSource Energy — a solar energy firm that earlier this year secured $1.37 billion in conditional federal loan guarantees to build a massive solar energy complex in Ivanpah, near the California-Nevada border, a project applauded by the Senator.
Hosting the breakfast event are Brightsource Energy’s CEO, John Woolard, and the chairman of PG&E Corporation, Peter Darbee. PG&E will be a major consumer of the electricity generated by the new project, with the first plant expected to go on-line in 2012. Woolard and other company executives have given a total of $6,000 to Sen. Reid since 2009 and PG&E’s PAC has given $2,000.
When the U.S. Department of Energy announced the federal loan guarantees in February, Reid lauded the project, saying, “I look forward to BrightSource and other solar companies putting more Nevadans to work by building major projects like this in Nevada very soon.”
And at the August 2009 Energy Summit 2.0 Roundtable Discussion led by Reid and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Woolard praised the Senator, saying that on the subject of solar energy he had “done a very good job of listening and understanding what some of these challenges are,” and then went on to describe the Ivanpah project as a jobs creator primarily for people from Clark County, Nevada.
The 400 megawatt solar complex, which when complete will be the world’s largest solar energy project, according to the company, will use mirrors to capture the sun’s power on 3,600 acres of federal land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In addition to the loan guarantees, the project is considered a “fast track” priority for receiving federal stimulus dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). BrightSource Energy is also receiving funding from Google.org and BP Alternative Energy among other groups...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/brightsource/index?tab=articles
Follow the money.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
BREAKING: NRG Energy on the DOE Cronyism Hot Seat, Also Tied to George Soros
I have been “following the green-energy money” (close to $100 billion dollars) since the passing of the 2009 stimulus package...And, early this morning –– a subscriber of The Washington Free Beacon, one of the few that has their eye on Green Cronyism –– I found this headline, Bundler of Sunshine: Obama Bundler’s Husband Has Received More Than a Billion in DOE Solar Loans.
Yep, NRG snagged two major DOE loans that by the way, were on the “Junk bond” portfolio that I had written about last month –– NRG with two green projects:
NRG Solar, LLC (Agua Caliente) –– Rating BB+ by Fitch; Aug 2011 for $967 million
NRG Energy (California Valley Solar Ranch) –– Rating BB+ by Fitch; Sept 2011 over $1.2 billion
NOTES on the Agua Caliente Project:
DOE announced a $967 million loan guarantee to NRG in August 2011 for its $1.8 billion Agua Caliente Solar Project.
NRG acquired the Agua Caliente Solar Project from First Solar on August 5, 2011, as DOE announced the loan. First Solar is a Goldman Sachs investment, and Goldman Sachs –– #2 top Obama 2008 donor with two Bundlers and other donors –– has their DNA all over “green!”
Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy bought a 49 percent stake in NRG’s Agua Caliente project in December 2011.
Electricity from Agua Caliente will be sold under a 25-year power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (another Big Energy firm making BANK off of green energy, including government subsidies that just so happens to be politically connected to the president and the Democrat party), helping California to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals. Also, PG&E’s whose former employee, Cathy Zoi –– a former was a DOE Official rife with “green conflicts of interest” –– until she left the Obama administration in February 2011 to join Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a private equity fund financed by the controversial left-wing billionaire George Soros!
I don’t understand it all but if a lot of corrupt money is involved, Soros is involved.
Why is he still breathing?