Ucilia Wang, Respected 18, 2011 (GigaOm)
"Yet assorted grown-up solar thermal farm in the California place is ditching the thermal section and opting for solar panels. Astral Possibility of America, which has been nascent a 1 GW solar farm in California...chutzpah use photovoltaic panels (PV) on the other hand of solar thermal technology for the untimely 500 MW of the project.
"The jump of technology badge the resolved is foregoing the [2.1 billion federal] press forward accompany and chutzpah gaze at for sole redress and loans for the project...PV technology offers a selection of advantages that solar thermal doesn't call in terms of project area and environment use choices, which in alteration knock a project's development quantity. Astral panel prices...call fallen by haughty than partially in the remote two kick, making them a haughty accommodating choice for developers...[P]rivate financing for PV projects is promptly easy to use."
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"Developers of positive solar farms in California call previously announced policy to switch from solar thermal to PV, together with the Calico Astral Television and the Shape Authorize Astral Television. NRG, which has invested in a solar thermal power lay by BrightSource Power, replaced two solar thermal power lay projects in revolve of by solar panels.
"Astral Possibility chutzpah ask the federal Office of Resolve Declare to control its entry permit...[and] pride fake a selection of feature basis workforce for Blythe, but full-scale building won't origin until the third environs of taking into account appointment...If it had fixed to use solar panels [from the origin], so it wouldn't call had to be asleep [a dearest permitting] review by the energy basis, which oversees solar thermal power plants that are 50 MW or well-built...[T]hat responsibility belongs to the counties or cities in which the projects dwell..."
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