{"id":7439,"date":"2014-01-19T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2014-01-19T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:38:55","slug":"all-new-u-s-energy-was-solar-in-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/all-new-u-s-energy-was-solar-in-october-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"All new U.S. energy was solar in October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nWhile\r\n\r\nten nukes were shut down or cancelled in 2013<\/a>,\r\nsolar power continues its compound-interest-curve ever-faster deployment.\r\nZero (0) new nukes were built in 2013 and in October all<\/em>\r\nnew U.S. utility-scale power was solar.\r\nUnfortunately, the biggest of those was Southern Company’s Campo Verde,\r\nwhich powers California, not Georgia or the southeast, but that is changing now.\r\n

\r\nTodd Woody wrote for The Atlantic 26 November 2013,\r\n\r\nSolar Energy Was America’s Sole New Power Source in October:\r\nGet ready for a photovoltaic building boom.<\/a>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nIn October, power plants generating 530 megawatts of electricity came online in the United States. And\r\n\r\nevery single electron put on the grid came from the sun<\/a>,\r\naccording to a report released today.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThat’s apparently not even counting rooftop solar.\r\n

\r\nThe report is\r\n\r\nSolar the sole capacity completed in October, at 530 MW<\/a>,\r\nby Althena Enguerra for SNL 25 November 2013.\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nCampo Verde Solar was the largest unit completed, with 139 MW of photovoltaic capacity. The Imperial County, Calif., plant was the fifth solar facility jointly \r\n\r\nacquired<\/A>\r\nby\r\n\r\nSouthern Co.<\/A>\r\nsubsidiary\r\n\r\nSouthern Power Co.<\/A>\r\nand\r\n\r\nTurner Renewable Energy<\/A>.\r\n\r\nFirst Solar Inc.<\/A>, which built the plant, is also in charge of its operations and maintenance for 10 years. The entire capacity of the facility is to be\r\n\r\nsold<\/A>\r\nto\r\n\r\nSempra Energy<\/A>\r\n\r\nSan Diego Gas & Electric Co.<\/A>\r\nunder a 20-year power purchase agreement.\r\nAn independent study\r\n\r\nshowed<\/A>\r\nthat the facility, the largest solar PV facility owned by Southern, is expected to provide economic benefits of about $239 million to Imperial County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAs\r\n\r\nI said to Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning back in May 2013<\/a>\r\nat the SO Stockholder Meeting,\r\n

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\r\nOkay, so — and there’s a lot of economic advantages to Campo\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nVerde. In jsq longer Campo Verde PR\r\n\r\nthis longer version of the press release<\/a>,\r\nand I’m talking about building the economy, 239 million\r\nover the next 30 years to the local county, $17.5 million in local\r\ntax revenue, 250 construction jobs. Unfortunately, that’s in\r\nCalifornia.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nHowever,\r\n\r\nwe can have that right here in the Southeast<\/a>,\r\nwhich is where I want to compliment\r\nPaul Bowers at Georgia Power because Georgia Power is helping\r\nconnect\r\n\r\ntwo megawatts of solar power coming into Valdosta, Georgia<\/a>,\r\nin the near future and perhaps some more. And Georgia Power is\r\nhelping connect\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\nthe megawatt on the roof of Dublin High School<\/a> in\r\nDublin, Georgia. Which, by the way, is going to use\r\n\r\nMAGE solar\r\npanels; that’s a German company but it’s manufacturing in Dublin,\r\nGeorgia<\/a>. And I believe some of those panels going in in Valdosta are\r\n\r\nSuniva panels, manufactured in Norcross, Georgia<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nTF:\r\nA Georgia Tech guy developed those.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd since GA PSC in July required Georgia Power to more than double\r\nthe amount of solar power it buys<\/a>,\r\nSouthern Company may finally deploy significant solar power in the southeast.\r\n

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