Results tagged “kern county”
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Photovoltaic (PV):
The 900-acre Catalina solar power plant in the Mojave Desert section of Kern County is completed. The plant's owner EDF Renewable Energy announced this week that the 143-megawatt plant has "reached commercial operation."
Solar:
The upscale Sacramento suburb of Roseville will buy electrical power from a solar facility more than 260 miles south of the city, in a Kern County town more readily known for oil wells than solar fields.
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.
Concrete and Chaparral :
Imagine setting aside several months of your life, free from the rat race, free from the daily commute, free from paying the bills, free from the oppressive bonds of daily commitments, and trading it all for discovery and adventure.
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.
Photovoltaic (PV):
A 450-megawatt solar project may break ground as early as next year at Edwards Air Force Base in the western Mojave Desert. The project, now undergoing environmental review, would sell power to utilities outside the military base.
Concrete and Chaparral :
I love noise. Or at least, I thought I did. Here, buffered by mountains and distance, the great urban lion has been hushed.
Wind:
Four California-based wind power facilities have applied to the federal government for permits to harm eagles, ReWire has learned.
Commentary:
The paper this week covered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to allow a wind facility to kill a condor, and among other problems the story contained a howler of a misstatement about wind development in the Mojave.
Wind:
The Bureau of Land Management has given the thumbs-up to a Kern County wind project that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says is likely to kill at least one California condor.
The Hidden Desert:
It's one of my favorite plants in Southern California, but I'm never sure what to call it in polite company.
As firefighters continued battling a 3,500-acre brush fire in Kern County, air quality officials today issued a smoke advisory for L.A. County areas.
Golden Green:
Banning fracking in California will not save the planet. But it's a start.
Wind:
In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will not penalize a Southern California wind operator if its turbines kill or injure one California condor.
Solar:
Valley fever, a respiratory infection spread by fungal spores that live in soil, has been diagnosed in 28 workers at two San Luis Obispo solar project construction sites. The stricken workers were employed at the California Valley Solar Ranch and Topaz Solar Farm, which occupy the arid Carrizo Plain in the eastern part of the county.
Solar:
Construction has launched on a solar project its developers are calling the world's largest, on more than 3,200 acres straddling the Kern-Los Angeles county line in the Antelope Valley.
SoCal Spirits:
Downtown's BUZZ Wine Beer Shop serves great craft beer to their neighborhood and beyond.
Wildlife:
More than half of the Mojave Desert biodiversity "hotspots" identified in a study are under threat from utility-scale renewable energy development and related transmission corridors.
Where We Are:
How long, like a dull echo, does a killing reverberate? For a death in an onion field in Kern County, it's been fifty years.
coal:
A proposed coal-fired power plant that would cost $3.15 billion tops a list of five projects of California investor-owned utilities singled out for criticism by the Sierra Club as expensive and dirty.
