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November 18, 2014

Clouds reducing power output at huge solar plant on California-Nevada border

  • State energy regulators approved the plant's request to increase by 60 percent the natural gas it uses to operate boilers.
  • By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Chris Carlson [enlarge]
    About 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors catch sunlight at Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Nevada, but the plant is producing about half of its expected output for 2014.

    LOS ANGELES — The largest solar power plant of its type in the world — once promoted as a turning point in green energy — isn't producing as much energy as planned.


     
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