11 years after a celebrated opening, massive Mojave Desert solar plant faces closure

[EverettChris]

The Green energy scam continues to follow the Ready! Shoot! Aim! approach to moving on from carbon-based sources.

11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
LOS ANGELES -- What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises.
The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, its power has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

Five miles of desert land? Try to get a resort built on 2 miles of desert land and geezus the greens will come out and go phucking apeshit. So, a 500 megawatt combined cycle gas plant can be built on five acres and will run at 95% capacity. Ivanpah Solar is on 5 square miles and has a 400 megawatt rated max output and ran at 24% capacity, so really the combined cycle gas plant puts out 5 times the electrical energy per year than the Ivanpah solar plant. The gas plant will go for 40 years, not 11 years. When I say leftards don't do numbers and shit this is exactly what I mean. Then we will get politicians like Oregon's Senator Wyden tell us how great and cheap green energy is and then bitch when the electric utility is getting double digit rate increases to pay for this expensive non-reliable dirty power. Fortunately for this $2.18 billion failed investment, the lenders were backed by a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee.