Google’s $168 Million Solar Gamble Gets Green Light

Clean Technica: We’ve been following the progress of the massive Ivanpah solar thermal power plant ever since Google put up a cool $168 million to help build it, so we’re happy to report that the plant has passed the critical “first sync” milestone. Built on public land in the Mohave desert and billed as the world’s largest solar thermal plant at 392 megawatts, Ivanpah alone will nearly double the existing commercial solar thermal energy capacity of the US when it starts delivering electricity later this year.

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