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Transmission: Impracticable
Huge Calif. solar plant would run transmission lines through state park |
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16 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:11 AM on 16 Jun 2008 A proposed solar power plant in Southern California is facing heavy opposition from some environmentalists as the plan also calls for high-voltage transmission lines to run through a popular state park. To move the power generated by 12,000 solar-thermal dishes near El Centro, Calif., to customers in San Diego, power company San Diego Gas & Electric wants to b ... |
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| Topics: California, energy, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics) |
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Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light
California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill |
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25 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill Call it the light and dark sides of the energy industry: yesterday, as news spread that a major California utility will make a ginormous solar buy, a British Columbia neighborhood was drenched in crude oil spewing from a broken pipe. Related? Only ... |
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| Topics: British Columbia, California, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics) |
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