Finally got rid of our painful combustion failure-Watt got along with it?

Finally happened. Ivana Solar Power Plant is the obstacle of bureaucracy and the behemoths of the incinerated wild and active plants, which are hovering the drain pipe. It was once celebrated to change the rules of the game that can change the renewable energy, and now quietly accompanies the stage with an attitude of “guys, omnipotent”. After trying to prove that his existence is reasonable 11 years, Ivanpah is going to close. Good mystery.

Los Angeles -Under the pressure of cheaper green energy, it used to be the largest solar power plant in the world to shut down just 11 years after opening. At the same time, environmentalists continued to blame Mohawa desert plants to kill thousands of birds and turtles.

https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-elargy- ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6D91C36088620E715E7141C

Large, hot, shiny disaster

Ivanpah opened in 2014, and all the usual prevalence and environment were known as “the breakthrough moment of clean energy.” It occupies more than five square miles on the federal land of Mojave Desert, which is an infinitely arrogant will of the central plan. They think they can defeat the free market through subsidies and prayers Essence

This concept is dazzling. The mirror-controlled mirror-controlled mirror of the AZZ chaos will be on the boiler on the top of the three huge towers to form a steam to rotate the turbine. It should be the victory of innovation. Instead, this is a warning story about the situation where the green energy dream occurs when it collides with reality.

Reality counterattack

The factory faced problems from the beginning. First of all, it has never generated as much electricity as promised. reason? The sun is not as expected. Yes, you read correctly. Somehow, the genius behind this project failed to explain … cloudEssence

Another accident: there is no sufficient sunshine. The weather forecast in the area underestimated the number of cloud coverage of Ivanpah since its service in 2013.

https://ca.audubon.org/news/ivanpah-fails-deliver-ele

Then there is a small problem of large -scale wild animals and plants. Protectors try to warn the ecological planning of fresh eyes, and it may not be the best idea in the middle of Mojave. But they were fired-until the reports began to pour in birds, when they passed through the strong reflected sunlight, they exploded during flight. This phenomenon is called “ribbon” because when the bird is spontaneously burned, this is what happened.

A new study by Ivana Solar facilities in the Mohawa Desert estimated that the factory killed 2500 to 6,700 birds in its first year. Their best guess is that the actual number is about 3500. When the observer reports that when the birds see the birds seeing the birds actually ignite near the middair near the strong calories generated by the facility, the facility has attracted the attention of the bird protector.

https://ca.audubon.org/node/22586

Moreover, we should not forget the desert turtle, this is another unexpected casualties. Environmentalists initially struggled with the factory's architecture that it would destroy the original habitat. They are right. However, the Cyra Club and others did not acknowledge failure, but used the disaster as a “learning experience” to say how to formulate all renewable energy projects.

Inevitable economic collapse

Even if Ivana is not a wild animals and plant crematorium, it still cannot make numbers work. The Pacific natural gas and electric (PG & E), which agreed to buy electricity from Ivanpah, decided to reduce losses. The public business company announced that it would terminate the contract with the factory and pointed out that reserving it would be a waste of money. Speak in the company: “PG & E determines that the agreement to terminate at this time will save customers.”

Southern California Edison, who is buying the remaining power, is also looking for an escape route. When the California's public business tends to subsidize and authorize the California public institutional company with subsidies and authorized renewable energy sources, it is the reason for you to lose, and you know that the ending is coming.

What is now?

The plan started to close Ivana's business in 2026, although the original contract should have continued until 2039. This means that we can clean up this confusion 13 years earlier. The owner, including NRG Energy, is now talking about a site that might use photovoltaic solar panels. because That Technology is different from the magnifying glass of Ivanpah, sometimes sometimes … at least more … at least more than IvanPah, which leads to this awesome offer:

NRG said in a statement that the project was successful, but it was impossible to compete with competitors' photovoltaic solar technology (such as roof panels). The capital and operating costs of these solar panels were much lower.

https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-elargy- ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6D91C36088620E715E7141C

But the question still exists: Who will pay for it for this? First of all, provide the same taxpayer for this failure experiment? This part has not been answered, but if history is any guidance, the bill will find the public way. SOCAL EDISON pleaded to the Energy Department to buy them. First of all, those ability to waste money funds waste funds.

Lessons of wreckage

Ivanpah is a glorious (literal) example, which shows what happens when ideological replacement of sound economy and engineering principles. This is never about the production of reliable and cost -effective energy. This is about making a huge symbolic posture in the struggle against climate change. Like most magnificent symbolic gestures, reality finally caught up.

Therefore, let us spend some time to say goodbye to IvanPah, Ivanpah is a millions of dollars of death trap, killing birds, displaced turtles and waste billions of dollars, all of which None of the energy that cannot compete with the roof solar.

Goodbye, Ivana. You will not miss it.

H/T Clyde Spencer, Doonman, Resouceguy, Yirgach

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