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Chevron to Build Solar Power Station to Run Oil Fields - How Ironic!
Chevron, the American multinational petrol corporation, has apparently seen the 'green' writing on the wall and is investing $3 billion in alternative energy facilities such as "Project Brightfield', an advanced solar power plant that will run the equipment at their Kern River station oil fields near Bakersfield, California. Chevron announced on Monday that the proposed power station will have 7,700 thin film solar panels and should generate 740 KW of power to run the 9,183 active oil wells.
The projects are not completely altruistic, however, because most major fossil fuel companies are realizing that by 2020, solar could well be cheaper than coal. According to Greg Chang of Bloomberg.com, “Chevron, Goldman Sachs, FPL, PG&E and other companies have filed more than 50 applications with the Bureau of Land Management to lease government-owned desert property for solar power systems." Chevron is already selling power back to the grid from Kern River from their on-site natural gas facility that has a co-generation plant that uses the excess heat to generate 300MW of electricity. Since the facility only requires 36MW, the remaining power is sold to the local utility.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- First Solar to Provide PG&E with 550MW of Solar Power by 2013
- World's Largest Concentrated Solar Farm to be Built in Colorado
- SolarReserve Solar Thermal Plant To Use Molten Salt
- Concentrated Solar Power Plants May Finally Clear Red Tape
- PG&E Pushing for Pumped Hydro Energy Storage
- Utility Solar Thermal Plant Uses Molten Salt for Heat Storage
- Solar Thermal Companies Offering Turn-Key Power Solutions
- World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Plant planned near Abu Dhabi
- BrightGrid Enters Growing Residential Solar Financing Market
- Suntech Opens First U.S. Solar Module Production Facility in Arizona
- Brazil Amazon Dam Raises Concerns & Unites Unlikely Opponents
- Wastewater Treatment Plant now powered by SunPower Solar Panels
- Stirling Energy Systems Suncatcher planned for Tessera Solar 850MW Mohave Desert Solar Pla
- India’s Booming Solar Industry Reinforces Linde as a Leading Gas Technology Supplier to PV
- Spain Opens World’s Largest Solar Power Station
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Good work Chevron, actually needed to oil wells
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Chevron the oil polluter wins;here’s why 1-2-3.
First…Chevron manipulates the solar tax credits to pay for the building and installation of the solar panels on real estate so polluted there is no other use for it.
Second…Chevron uses the solar energy produced for their own use and benefit at the polluting sources.
Third…Chevron will buy the right to continue to pollute through the possible future carbon tax and trade program using the solar energy as their trading chip.
Chevron wins…through the use of Green Energy they are buying the right to continue to be one of the world’s largest polluters.
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