One of California’s Biggest Solar Projects Will Be Located at an Oil Field

A newly solar energy Photovoltaic holder announced project at California’s Solar Project Belridge solar damper oil field will bring solar and fossil fuels together solar tracker actuator at Solar Project solar slewing drive one of the state’s solar energy solar inverter slewing drive biggest solar deployments.

The slewing drive partnership, between Photovoltaic holder Belridge field operator Aera solar slewing drive Energy and solar thermal  Solar Project power company GlassPoint, will solar energy feature solar tracker actuator  solar slewing drive a solar inverter 26.5-megawatt Solar Project photovoltaic array and 850 megawatts-thermal of solar collectors solar slewing drive for steam generation. It's slated to solar energy come on-line in solar damper 2020.

Aera, slewing drive which Solar Project is Photovoltaic holder jointly solar energy owned by majors Shell solar slewing drive and Solar Project Exxon, produces almost a quarter of California’s solar inverter Photovoltaic holder oil Solar Project and gas. GlassPoint currently has two running solar energy projects in Oman that are tied to oil extraction solar tracker actuator solar slewing drive operations.

Aera slewing drive monitored Solar Project GlassPoint for years after attending the 2011 launch of a pilot plant at the Berry Petroleum Company field, also in solar inverter Kern County. But solar tracker actuator GlassPoint’solar energy s Solar Project COO and acting CEO, Ben Bierman, said “the Photovoltaic holder stars solar slewing drive aligned” solar energy solar energy only recently to make a project viable for solar energy slewing drive Aera.
 

“At first it slewing drive didn’t make Photovoltaic holder economic solar tracker actuator sense to deploy solar at  solar damper our operations,” said Aera CEO solar slewing drive Christina Sistrunk,Photovoltaic holder in an email. “But solar inverter over the years GlassPoint has made slewing drive advancements in their technology to reduce costs and has proven the viability of solar tracker actuator their solar technology in solar tracker actuator Oman.”
 

When water Photovoltaic holder is separated from oil in  the solar tracker actuator  extraction solar damper process, GlassPoint’s thermal solar slewing drive enhanced oil recovery slewing drive (EOR) system turns it into solar inverter steam using curved mirrors slewing drive inside greenhouse-like structures. The high-pressure steam is Photovoltaic holder pushed back into the earth to help pump more solar tracker actuator  oil.
 

Oil producers invented solar slewing drive thermal slewing drive EOR in Kern County solar damper in the 1960s to release “heavy oil” from wells that could no longer produce. Oil from the fields slewing drive originally powered the boilers. Natural gas became solar tracker actuator the fuel of choice in the 1980s. Now solar slewing drive GlassPoint’s Photovoltaic holder model clears solar inverter the way for extraction companies to solar damper integrate renewables slewing drive instead. 
 

A recent analysis found that solar steam generators are often lower-cost solar tracker actuator than natural-gas generators, when gas costs $6 Photovoltaic holder mmbtu.  
 

“Our company solar inverter is maniacally driven to reduce the cost solar damper of solar thermal energy,” said Bierman. “This analysis by Aera Photovoltaic holder shows other producers in the Valley that the slewing drive  economics must solar tracker actuator work.”
 

GlassPoint solar inverter uses greenhouses to protect its slewing drive mirrors from wind and other elements, allowing the company to cut down on mirror material by 18 solar slewing drive percent. A washing robot cleans the glass solar damper solar tracker actuator every night to restore performance. The company also reduced the solar inverter weight of the slewing drive structure that supports the mirrors by 30 percent and reduced the number of Photovoltaic holder motors it uses by a third -- all in the name of solar tracker actuator cost-cutting. 
 

Now that Aera is on solar slewing drive board, GlassPoint is eyeing other solar damper producers in solar tracker actuator the Valley and beyond. Most active thermal EOR fields are in solar inverter the Middle East (where GlassPoint slewing drive has two projects) and California. But as costs continue solar slewing drive to decline, the technology will likely become viable in slewing drive countries such as India, Indonesia and solar damper China, according to Bierman. 
 

As more solar inverter countries introduce carbon-reduction targets, solar solar damper systems will likely entice more producers. Sistrunk said California’s solar slewing drive extension of its cap-and-trade law in July provided solar tracker actuator the solar damper regulatory and political stability solar slewing drive to ensure investments solar inverter in emissions reductions solar tracker actuator would still make economic solar slewing drive sense solar damper in the coming decades.
 

Thermal EOR solar inverter Photovoltaic holder solar slewing drive uses 1.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas a year slewing drive to solar tracker actuator produce steam solar damper. Every year the Photovoltaic holder Belridge project will offset 376,000 tons of carbon dioxide, equal to 80,000 cars. The site's solar PV solar damper installation will help power equipment and building solar inverter solar tracker actuator operations.
 

“We’ve solar inverter had Photovoltaic holder something of a false solar slewing drive dichotomy for the last decade, slewing drive where it was envisioned solar damper as some kind of competition between renewable energy and conventional energy forces,” said solar tracker actuator Bierman. “We see this Photovoltaic holder as an energy solar damper  solar tracker actuator convergence.”