Birghtsource upsells SunEdison
BrightSource Energy Inc. said Monday it will deliver one fewer power plant to Southern California Edison than the original seven it had planned, but it would amend its contracts to solar storage so it can deliver the same amount of electricity — 4 million megawatt hours — from six power plants instead of seven.
The Oakland-based solar thermal power plant developer said adding molten salt storage to its solar thermal power plant development will reduce "the land impacts of delivering this energy and avoid transactional costs that ultimately impact California’s ratepayers."
BrightSource has signed contracts to deliver power produced from its large desert solar projects to Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. It announced in August it would offer molten salt storage — which stores captured heat to extend the amount of time each day a solar system can produce power — to utilities.
The company said if its regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission, approves the new contracts with Southern California Edison, it will build six solar thermal plants that will come online between 2015 and 2017. One of those, the Google-backed Ivanpah solar plant, is already under construction.
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