Agua Caliente Solar Project

Share Department of Energy Finalizes a $967 Million Loan Guarantee to Support the Agua Caliente Solar Project Arizona Project Expected to Generate Approximately 400 Solar Related Jobs Washington D.C. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy finalized a $967 million loan guarantee to Agua Caliente Solar, LLC. The loan guarantee will support the construction of the Agua Caliente Solar project , a 290-megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility in Yuma County, Arizona that will use thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar, Inc. The project sponsor, NRG Solar LLC, estimates the photovoltaic generation facility will fund approximately 400 construction jobs and 10 full time operating jobs, and will be one of the largest plants of its kind in the world when completed. The Agua Caliente Solar project will bring hundreds of jobs to Arizona, while helping increase the reliability of renewable solar power, said Secretary Chu. “Todays announcement, in addition to several recent offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees to solar manufacturing and generation projects, demonstrates the Administrations ongoing commitment to creating clean energy jobs while bringing innovative renewable energy technologies to the market.” The Agua Caliente Solar project will deploy fault ride-through and dynamic voltage regulation, innovative technologies that are new to photovoltaic solar power plants in the United States. These technologies will improve the reliability and predictability of the electricity supplied to the electricity grid. Pacific Gas & Electric Company will purchase power generated from the project and will deliver clean, renewable electricity to California consumers. The Department of Energys Loan Programs Office administers three separate programs: the Title XVII Section 1703 and Section 1705 loan guarantee programs, and the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program. The loan guarantee programs support the deployment of commercial technologies along with innovative technologies that avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions, while ATVM supports the development of advanced vehicle technologies. Including all three programs, DOE has issued loans, loan guarantees or offered conditional commitments for loan guarantees totaling over $40 billion to support 42 clean energy projects across the U.S. DOE has issued conditional commitments or loan guarantees to support numerous projects, including several of the worlds largest solar generation facilities, three geothermal projects, the worlds largest wind farm, and the nations first new nuclear power plant in three decades. For more information, please visit http://www.lpo.energy.gov. Bookmark our website and please come back and visit us soon. We have other articles, just like the one above, which will be sure to get your mind looking at solar power in a completely different way. Why not sign up for our email notifications so that you can be informed immediately we post the latest information? Please share your feedback and add to the growing debate on solar power : there are thousands of readers waiting to read your thoughts.

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US DOE Funds Huge Solar Project in CA

The Department of Energy, through the Loan Programs Office, has issued loan guarantees or offered conditional commitments for loan guarantees totaling over $18 billion to support 20 clean energy projects across 14 states.

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USPS Goes Green

In strict adherence to guidelines released by the Department of Energy, the United States Postal Service gets on a fast track to reach the goal for energy reduction. Green roofs, green buildings and an optimally efficient management system of energy consumption form part of the energy-reduction strategy. Power Guzzlers: Use of air conditioning is one Posted in: Environment , Industry , Transportation

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Sun Shines on Solar Energy Future

The chances of producing solar power as a more commercially viable source of alternative energy seem brighter now with the positive research results pioneered by University of Illinois professors. The Department of Energy and National Science Foundation-funded team led by Professors John Rogers, and Xiuling Li, has been exploring ways to find more optimal Posted in: Future Energy , PhotoVoltaics , Solar Power

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Solar Boat Contest

Fifth grade students from East Hawaii competed in the third annual Solar Boat Regatta Saturday (May at Hilo Middle School. The annual event is sponsored by Hawaii Electric Light Company and the Department of Education. Read more on Solar Boat Contest… Energy Tags: energy , hybrid cars

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Bacteria that acts like a reverse fuel cell – producing biofuel from carbon dioxide

Geobacter bacteria University of Massachusetts researchers have received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to pursue their research into the Geobacter bacterium. The researchers have found a way to have the Geobacter bacteria produce biofuel when hit with a tiny amount of electricity. The Related posts: Mantra Energy wants to convert CO2 back into new fuel Australia launches project to bury carbon dioxide Science Daily: New ‘Biofuel Cell’ produces Electricity from Hydrogen in Plain Air

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Sapphire Energy gets $104.5 million in federal funding to build its algae biofuel plant

Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy announced almost $600 million in funding for advanced biofuel projects. This money is intended to push forward next generation biofuels, since corn based ethanol plants have come under fire for increasing food costs. One of the beneficiaries of the funding is Sapphire Energy, who No related posts.

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US Interior Department sets aside twenty four federal solar zones for study

The US Department of Interior (DOI) announced this week that they have identified twenty four sites in the western United States to be considered for utility scale solar plants. The sites are all on Federal land administered by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). What’s interesting about this announcement is that all

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Solyndra adds to its contracts with a $189m SunConnex deal

Solyndra, which recently had gotten a $535 million Federal load guarantee from the Department of Energy, has just signed a new $189m multiyear contract with Amsterdam based solar intergrator SunConnex. The contract, which calls for Solyndra to sell an undisclosed number of its tubular thin film solar panels to SunConnex, is scheduled to

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Flying Cars by 2011?

If you secretly nurtured a dream of owning a flying car, the good news is your dream can be a reality by 2011. This month MIT students, from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, have successfully flight tested the prototype of a winged car for the first time. This car took off from a runway Posted in: Inventions , Transportation

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