{"id":575748,"date":"2010-05-22T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2010-05-22T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:10:47","slug":"doe-approves-loan-guarantee-for-abengoa-solana-project-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575748","title":{"rendered":"DOE Approves Loan Guarantee for Abengoa Solana Project in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Solana_CSP_Abengoa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10113\" title=\"Solana_CSP_Abengoa\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/Solana_CSP_Abengoa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe U.S. Department of Energy has just agreed to guarantee  the loan  for  Abengoa Solar to start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgprogram.energy.gov\/NEPA-1b-8.html\">construction<\/a> of the Solana CSP Project, announced in 2007. The decision marks the culmination of a lengthy environmental assessment with 286 pages of referenced impact   statements, covering every possible reason to   obstruct Abengoa&#8217;s Solana &#8211; Spanish for a sunny place &#8211; CSP Project.<\/p>\n<p>Not all energy suppliers speed through environmental reviews in under 90  days like off-shore oil projects in the Gulf of Mexico apparently do.  Dangerous, <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/22\/2010\/04\/22\/oil-industry-uses-pbs-nova-to-scaremonger-risk-of-clean-energy\/\">&#8220;risky!&#8221;  solar projects are &#8220;energy gambles&#8221;<\/a> that needs must take at least two years to  review. No rubber stamp for energy sources that might compete with the mighty  fossil industry.<\/p>\n<p>Abengoa can now begin to build the 280 MW concentrating solar power  plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, and an associated 230 kilovolt  transmission line.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/22\/doe-approves-loan-guarantee-for-abengoa-solana-project-in-arizona\/#more-10103\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy has just agreed to guarantee the loan for Abengoa Solar to start construction of the Solana CSP Project, announced in 2007. The decision marks the culmination of a lengthy environmental assessment with 286 pages of referenced impact statements, covering every possible reason to obstruct Abengoa&#8217;s Solana &#8211; Spanish for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575748","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\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}