According to a recently released report from the EERE Network News, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the California Energy Commission have completed a joint draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Project. The project, to be located on about 4,000 acres of federal land in Southern California's Ivanpah Valley will have the capacity to generate up to 400 megawatts (MW) of electricity.
The November 11, 2009 EERE News report stated that the project will employ a field of flat mirrors, or heliostats, to focus the sun's heat on a central receiver mounted at the top of a tower. In the central receiver, water is boiled to steam, which is then used to drive a turbine to produce power.
Proposed by BrightSource Energy Inc., the Ivanpah project will be built in three phases, including two 100-MW plants and one 200-MW plant. According to the CEC, each 100-MW plant will use three power towers and the 200-MW plant will have four power towers around a central plant. The entire project is set to be built on land managed by Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The facilities are under contract to provide power to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison.
The Interior Department also announced that five other renewable energy projects in California are on a fast-track review schedule and are set to begin environmental review. Four of these are solar projects and one is a wind farm, and all are located on BLM lands.
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