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Gilroy Dispatch
February 14, 2018
High-voltage power lines cross adjacent to the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The casino-resort area of Primm, Nev.,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
August 21, 2017
An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, Calif. on Sept. 3, 2008. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press). Unlike some deserts, California's Mojave Desert is full of life. There are tortoises and bighorn sheep, breathtaking wildflower blooms and Joshua trees.
Salon
August 9, 2017
To explain why she authored a bill to protect water in the Mojave Desert, Assemblywoman Laura Friedman goes back to her childhood. Growing up in Plantation, Florida, on the edge of the Everglades, the 50-year-old Glendale Democrat had a “front-row seat” to the destruction of the swamps, sloughs, andÃâà...
LA Daily News
July 15, 2017
This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows high-voltage power lines in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from Ivanpah, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon). By Daily News | |. PUBLISHED: July 14, 2017 at 8:28 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 5:30 am. After almost five years on opposite sides of a cap-and-trade lawsuit, theÃâà...
OCRegister
July 13, 2017
This Aug. 13, 2014, file photo, shows an array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site in Ivanpah, Calif. By Kerry Jackson | Orange County Register. PUBLISHED: July 13, 2017 at 12:02 am | UPDATED: July 13, 2017 at 8:25 am. California's solar power system generated such a glut of electricity for two weeksÃâà...
Press-Enterprise
July 4, 2017
High-voltage power lines cross adjacent to the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. By Press-Enterprise Editorial BoardÃâà...
OCRegister
July 3, 2017
AP Photo/Reed Saxon. High-voltage power lines cross adjacent to the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. 3 Comments.
NBC Connecticut
June 20, 2017
3, 2008, file photo, an endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road in the eastern Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, Calif. Otis, an Ohio desert tortoise, was found by his owner, Kathie Heisinger, after a two-week search in June 2017. A wayward tortoise's surprising trek around Ohio has ended happilyÃâà...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
May 16, 2017
The 59 year-old Aguilar has been on the job at Texas Central since December. He brings decades of experience with huge infrastructure projects, including the Cantarell offshore natural gas field in Mexico, the London Underground and the world's largest solar thermal energy plant in Ivanpah, Calif.
Engadget
May 10, 2017
The world's largest solar power plant, in fact, kills thousands of birds annually at its Ivanpah, California site. A new study in Sweden found that the country's wind turbines kill tens of thousands of bats annually -- an average of 10 to 15 bats per turbine. The answer? Halt the spinning of the fans during theÃâà...
Green Prophet
February 14, 2014
It has been a long, controversial and expensive road for BrightSource Energy, but their 392 megawatt concentrating solar plant is now finally delivering renewable energy to the California grid and it is the largest plant of its kind in the world. Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System (ISEGS), which isÃâà...
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