{"id":362223,"date":"2010-02-24T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1303\/brightsource-gets-1-4-billion-doe-loan-guarantee-for-400-mw-of-solar-thermal.html"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:39:00","slug":"brightsource-gets-1-4-billion-doe-loan-guarantee-for-400-mw-of-solar-thermal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362223","title":{"rendered":"BrightSource gets $1.4 billion DOE loan guarantee for 400 MW of solar thermal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brightsource\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/brightsource.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightsourceenergy.com\/images\/uploads\/press_releases\/BSE_Press_Release_DOE_Announcement_2_22_10_FINAL-2.pdf\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightsourceenergy.com\/images\/uploads\/press_releases\/BSE_Press_Release_DOE_Announcement_2_22_10_FINAL-2.pdf\">BrightSource Energy, Inc<\/a> has received $1.37 billion in loan guarantees from the DOE for 400 MW&#8217;s worth of solar thermal energy projects through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.<\/p>\n<p>With the funding, the company is constructing three utility-scale concentrated solar plants that will make up the Ivanpah Solar Complex. Located in the Mojave Desert on federally-owned land, the complex will be the largest in the world and will double the capacity of installed solar thermal in the country.\u00a0 It will produce enough electricity to power 140,000 California homes.<\/p>\n<p>The first plant will start construction this year and be completed in 2012, while the other two have completion dates of mid-to-late 2013.\u00a0 PG&#038;E and SCE have entered into long-term agreements to purchase the power generated by the plants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/solar-power\/2557\">BrightSource<\/a> was one of the companies with renewable energy projects biding their time in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/solar-power\/2469\">Bureau of Land Management approval process glut<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re glad to see such a large project make it through and to get federal financing support as well.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/news\/8675.htm\">DOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/ej4hkve-cn4\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrightSource Energy, Inc has received $1.37 billion in loan guarantees from the DOE for 400 MW&#8217;s worth of solar thermal energy projects through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With the funding, the company is constructing three utility-scale concentrated solar plants that will make up the Ivanpah Solar Complex. Located in the Mojave Desert on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}