Susan Kraemer
News & Commentary
Renewables
Solar
How Ivanpah solar tower plant raised its performance in second year
In 2015, PG&E customers received about 97% of Ivanpah’s contracted electrons. But what exactly were the engineering challenges at Ivanpah – and why did they take a year to...
Despite some alarmist headlines from solar-hater, the decision by California's energy regulator to give the Ivanpah solar tower facility more time to reach targets makes sense. They are 97%...
SolarReserve’s break-through Crescent Dunes solar tower with thermal storage has successfully generated electricity at its full 110MW capacity.
Ivanpah has almost doubled its output in the first 6 months of 2015, to 309,288 MWh, compared to the same 6-month period in its first year.
The solution to a serious problem discovered last year at Ivanpah — the first solar power tower in the US — actually has turned out to be “one weird...
