Please, people, it's November! Short days, plus frequent clouds from winter weather! Let's see what it can do next August, and then complain if it can't measure up to expectations.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest solar power plant of its type in the world – once promoted as a turning point in green energy – isn’t producing as much energy as planned.
One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn’t shining as much as expected.
Sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in February, with operators saying it would produce enough electricity to power a city of 140,000 homes.
So far, however, the plant is producing about half of its expected annual output for 2014, according to calculations by the California Energy Commission.
Of course, maybe it will fry fewer birds at half power. That's a positive, right?
Harry Reid worked hard to get that boondoggle underway at massive taxpayer expense.
ReplyDeleteAnd I hear that the company that owns this wants yet another half billion from the taxpayer to bail them out ( I think it's this same project). Scam from beginning to end.
DeleteIt's only another $500,000,000.00. That's chump change in the ObamaNation.
DeleteSend some of that chump change my way, Obama! I'm a chump in need of a little of your pocket change!
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