Chevron tests 7 solar technologies (San Francisco)
Chevron Corp. has opened a demonstration facility for solar technologies on the site of a former refinery in Bakersfield.
The company will install 7,700 next-generation solar panels from seven companies. Chevron is calling the program Project Brightfield and will use the information it collects to evaluate which panels it might use at other company owned facilities.
"Testing competing technologies side by side means that we can better understand their potential application at other Chevron facilities,” said Des King, president of Chevron Technology Ventures, the division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. that identifies, evaluates and demonstrates emerging technologies.
Chevron will test thin-film solar technologies.
Read the full story in the San Francisco Business Times.
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