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BrightSource Energy, developer of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System now under construction in the California desert, wants to change how it mitigates its project effects on the federally threatened desert tortoise
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BrightSource leaves the door open for more venture capital investment.
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has set the date for a workshop at which members of the public can voice their views and concerns over BrightSource Energy's proposed Rio Mesa Solar Project near Blythe, California.
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The state's Public Utilities Commission rules on five power sales contracts between SCE and the solar developer BrightSource, approving only two of them.
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Concentrating solar companies are having trouble, but today BrightSource seems to buck the general trend.
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California Energy Commission staff have released a first draft of their assessment of the Rio Mesa solar project.
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A war of environmental documents is taking place between the developer of the Hidden HIlls solar project and California Energy Commission staff, with a Commission decision on the dispute due Monday.
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The EPA clears a procedural roadblock for a gas-fired power plant in Palmdale that has some solar attached.
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California's grid operator expands into southwestern Nevada to serve a planned 500-megawatt solar project.
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The Center for Biological Diversity wants California to see whether two pending solar power tower projects hurt wildlife before approving more.
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BrightSource relents and submits a plan to survey its Rio Mesa site for fossils.
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A Fish and Wildlife Service official has suggested that a couple years of wildlife research be done before more solar power tower projects are approved.
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A team led by researchers from UCLA will be working to make solar power plants far more efficient using molten metals.
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BrightSource wants to redesign the Palen Solar Power project. The state's approval was based on the old design. What's next?
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Biologists found endangered elf owls on the Rio Mesa solar site this April, but later searches have turned up nothing.
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The Ninth Circuit says BrightSource can keep building the Ivanpah Solar project for the time being.
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The California Energy Commission has released photos and reports on the July flooding at Genesis Solar.
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Company says Genesis Solar flood was not of Biblical proportions.
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BrightSource has been dragging its heels on providing fossil data, and the California Energy Commission is fed up.
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If BrightSource was wishing there was more water available at their proposed Hidden Hills solar project in Inyo County, they got their wish on Monday. Big time.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
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