No, they had already commited their money a couple of years ago for Ivanpah. They decided to not invest anymore in solar thermal.
I can slap in a 50 MW peaking solar PV field in a couple months for 1/2 the price and a year and 1/2 faster than a solar thermal plant. Obsolete technology. Period On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > From: Jed Rothwell > > Is it worth the risk? Google apparently thought it was for > a > while, then they changed their minds. Maybe they will change their minds > back again. > > Apparently, they did change their minds back again. PRESS RELEASE: > > Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Reaches 'First Sync' Milestone > > NIPTON, Calif.--Sep. 24, 2013--Today it was announced that the Ivanpah > Solar > Electric Generating System produced its first output of energy when the > Unit > 1 station was synchronized to the power grid for the first time. Achieving > this critical "first sync" is a major milestone for the project, which is > jointly-owned by NRG Energy, Inc., BrightSource Energy, Inc. and Google. >
