At Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, Energy Production Falling Well Short of Expectations

At Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, Energy Production Falling Well Short of Expectations

By Pete Danko

Whether scorched birds are a major issue at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California is a matter of dispute. But the “power tower” solar plant and its owners – NRG Energy, Google and BrightSource Energy – might have an even more fundamental problem on their hands: generating adequate electricity. The Mojave Desert plant,

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