Chevron gets OK for world’s biggest solar project
The California Energy Commission approved a proposed $6 billion solar power project being developed by Chevron Corp. and Solar Millennium AG.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, on a trade mission to South Korea, said through his office: “I applaud the California Energy Commission’s decision to approve the construction of the Blythe Solar Power Project—the world’s largest—and am excited to see other solar projects move forward.”
The Blythe project is to be built in an unincorporated bit of Riverside County, about eight miles west of the town that it takes its name from. It could produce up to 1,000 megawatts of power through four independent units of 250 megawatts each. The developers propose using “parabolic trough” devices to focus sunlight on a fluid that goes on to generate steam, which drives generating turbines.
In August the CEC also approved a 250 megawatt project for NextEra and last week it blessed another 250 megawatt project in the Mojave Desert.
Read the full story in the San Francisco Business Times.
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