Results tagged “imperial county”
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Wildlife:
In the wake of this week's sentencing of eagle biologist John David Bittner on charges of handling eagles and other birds without a federal license, Bittner's colleagues in the environmental realm are weighing in -- and they have harsh words for their colleague.
Government:
The new zone is California's third. All told, that means the Interior department has declared 164,391 acres of the California Desert as Solar Energy Zones.
Wind:
Pattern Energy, a wind and transmission company with two major projects in California, is planning to go public. But do the numbers work out?
Commentary:
We've heard some critical reaction to our piece on the EPA's newly upgraded renewable energy mapping tool. We agree with that criticism. Here's why.
Photovoltaic (PV):
At no more than 14 megawatts of planned capacity, San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed Ocotillo Sol power plant is a lot smaller than many desert solar projects. But it's still got wildlife and cultural protection activists concerned: the project would occupy 115 acres of Imperial County's Yuha Desert that had been set aside for protection by the feds.
Wind:
A flash flood hit the southern portion of the Ocotillo Express Wind facility Sunday night, tearing up gravel access roads and dumping enough debris onto State Route 98 that the road had to be closed for a time.
Geothermal:
A study published Thursday in the journal Science has linked geothermal energy production in the Salton Sea area with an increase in local earthquakes.
Wind:
Is there really enough wind in Ocotillo to justify the area's wind turbines? That's a question some Imperial County residents are asking this week, as Ocotillo Express Wind's operator Pattern Energy slowly brings back online turbines that had been shut down after a May accident.
Wind:
The company shut its solar thermal division in late June. Now, the head of Siemens' wind division is leaving "by mutual agreement to pursue new career challenges."
East CA:
The names of places in the California Desert can tell interesting stories about those places' history, their landscape, and their importance to people who lived here for centuries.
The National Weather Service is warning that it's going to be hot this weekend, with the eastern part of the state getting very hot.
Natural Gas:
Though the general consensus seems to be that southern California will get through the summer just fine without the permanently closed San Onofre nuclear power plant, officials at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are pushing to make up what they say may be a shortfall by allowing the construction of an unpopular gas-fired plant near the Mexican border.
Utilities:
A bill introduced into the California Legislature would require that all California utilities get 51 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.
Wind:
The 315-megawatt Ocotillo Express Wind project in Imperial County is shut down today after a 10-ton blade came loose from one of the project's 112 Siemens wind turbines, landing about 100 yards away on a public road.
East CA:
Having your ability to breathe deemed less important than the right of urbanites to keep and bear obsolete green lawns does something to your self-esteem.
Wildlife:
A photo making the rounds of social media may prove embarrassing to Pattern Energy, the developer of the huge Ocotillo Express Wind project in Imperial County.
East CA:
Imperial County is the California desert's toxic capital, with places like the east Coachella Valley and a few other spots not far behind.
Climate Change:
Twenty California counties have endured weather-related disasters since January 2007 that were damaging enough to merit 41 Federal disaster area declarations, and two-thirds of Californians live on counties struck by those disasters.
Geothermal:
California remains the nation's geothermal leader with over 2,700 megawatts of capacity installed.
Wind:
A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed two lawsuits against the Ocotillo Express Wind project in Imperial County.
