{"id":638,"date":"2007-09-28T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/15b-for-solar-thermal\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:06:07","slug":"15b-for-solar-thermal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/15b-for-solar-thermal\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.5B for Solar Thermal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/\">Montara Energy Ventures<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/https:\/\/www.fplenergy.com\/portfolio\/contents\/segs_viii.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" >FPL&#8217;s SEGS Plant<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/segsplant.gif\" alt=\"Harper Junction solar thermal electricity plant\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=50108\" target=\"_blank\" >Renewable Energy Access<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> FPL Group Incorporated, a generator of renewable electric power, yesterday announced a $2.4 billion investment program aimed at increasing U.S. solar thermal energy output and reducing carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These new investments, coupled with our recent announcement to invest an estimated $20 billion in new wind generation, demonstrate FPL Group&#8217;s continued commitment to improve the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Lew Hay, Chairman and CEO, FPL Group.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the investment ($1.5 billion) will go in new solar thermal generating facilities in Florida and California over the next seven years, starting with a project at FPL.  FPL is planning to build 300 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity in Florida using Ausra, Inc.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solar thermal technology. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=50108\" target=\"_blank\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. FPL&#8217;s SEGS Plant Via Renewable Energy Access: FPL Group Incorporated, a generator of renewable electric power, yesterday announced a $2.4 billion investment program aimed at increasing U.S. solar thermal energy output and reducing carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. &#8220;These new investments, coupled with our recent announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}