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BY Tali Aaron : March 26

Chevron to Build Solar Power Station to Run Oil Fields - How Ironic!

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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.

21 Responses to Chevron to Build Solar Power Station to Run Oil Fields - How Ironic!

  1. Omar Masry on August 25, 2012 at 3:08 am


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  2. buildaroo on August 25, 2012 at 3:07 am


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  3. Eco Shopping Store on February 24, 2012 at 2:06 pm


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  4. Green Celebrity News on February 24, 2012 at 12:41 pm


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  5. buildaroo on February 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm


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  6. Russ Rosenfeld on February 9, 2012 at 9:32 pm


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  7. buildaroo on February 9, 2012 at 9:30 pm


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  8. buildaroo on February 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm


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  9. Interior designs on July 27, 2010 at 10:42 pm


    Good work Chevron, actually needed to oil wells

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  11. green1000 on April 10, 2010 at 6:12 pm


    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.

  12. david a quinley on March 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm


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  13. Graham Sargent on March 27, 2010 at 7:28 am


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  14. Gabriella Turek on March 27, 2010 at 4:02 am


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  15. Bev Ratch on March 27, 2010 at 12:42 am


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  16. Ryan Wagner on March 26, 2010 at 10:46 pm


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  17. OpenEI.org on March 26, 2010 at 10:40 pm


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  18. Wayne Ericksen, P.E. on March 26, 2010 at 10:38 pm


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  19. Change Chevron on March 26, 2010 at 9:56 pm


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  21. mesomahony on March 26, 2010 at 7:45 pm


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