{"id":462485,"date":"2010-03-23T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:25:17","slug":"chevron%e2%80%99s-green-energy-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462485","title":{"rendered":"Chevron\u2019s Green Energy Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chevron throws a quick slant to green energy. HUT, HUT!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Is Chevron, which announced yesterday that it has begun testing solar panels\u00a0at an old California refinery site<\/a>, positioning itself to become a \u201cpan-energy\u201d company like its competitor BP?<\/p>\n

Not quite, Chevron\u2019s Vice President of Emerging Energy Jerry Lomax tells G.E.R., but “Project Brightfield” does signal an interesting energy strategy nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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For Chevron, the California oil and gas major, going green is part of a mostly internal process that seeks improve the company’s efficiencies in its oil and gas fields and, downstream, operating its energy-hungry refineries.<\/p>\n

Lomax explains:<\/p>\n

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We are looking for technology that we can integrate into our different operations, refineries or oil and gas fields and support our core oil and gas businesses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This contrasts with BP, which had sought develop and sell solar and wind powered electricity before gradually pulling back from the strategy after Tony Hayward took over as chief executive.<\/p>\n

Now, Hayward has refocussed investments on the company’s core oil and gas business, though BP still has considerable investments in renewables<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chevron\u2019s Bakersfield facility will host a three-year test of six different thin-film solar photovoltaic panels and a crystalline silicon technology, dubbed Project Brightfield. The company will eventually select one or more of the panels to power \u00a0facilities across their energy supply chain.<\/p>\n

The tests are being overseen by Chevron Technology Ventures, the unit within the oil and gas company in charge of looking for and evaluating new technologies, including renewable technologies.<\/p>\n

Unlike Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell, which have pegged their renewable energy policy on biofuels, the test, announced yesterday, underscored Chevron’s bent for solar power.<\/p>\n

Lomax said the company “is very interested in solar” and sees opportunities at a time when the price of solar technology is becoming competitive.<\/p>\n

The company is also testing concentrating photovoltaic (CPV)<\/a> technology at a mine in New Mexico and solar steam technology<\/a> in Central California.<\/p>\n

Lomax added that while solar is one focus, the company is also invested in wind generation and is the world’s largest operator of geothermal generation.<\/p>\n

Image: Courtesy Jeffness, Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

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Chevron throws a quick slant to green energy. HUT, HUT!!! Is Chevron, which announced yesterday that it has begun testing solar panels\u00a0at an old California refinery site, positioning itself to become a \u201cpan-energy\u201d company like its competitor BP? Not quite, Chevron\u2019s Vice President of Emerging Energy Jerry Lomax tells G.E.R., but “Project Brightfield” does signal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462485","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\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}