President Address on Clean Energy

President Obama discusses clean energy in the United States. An energy policy that lessens America's dependence on foreign energy sources. The president talks about a company called BrightSource building the largest solar thermal power production plant of its kind in the Mojave Desert of California (near Ivanpah Dry Lake in San Bernardino County). The project will employee around 1,000 people and provide power to 140,000 homes. The plant is slated to produce 370 megawatts. BrightSource currently has about 200 employees mostly in Israel. It has received 1.37 billion dollars in conditional loan guarantee from the United States Department of Energy.

This plant is one of four large plants approved by the California Energy Commission with five more pending approval. If all are brought on-line, 4.3 gigawatts will be generated.

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