Huge solar plant lags in early production

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/huge-solar-plant-lags-in-early-production/2014/11/17/9a75f502-6e8f-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html

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.

One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn’t shining as much as expected.

Sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in February, with operators saying it would produce enough electricity to power a city of 140,000 homes.

So far, however, the plant is producing about half of its expected annual output for 2014, according to calculations by the California Energy Commission.

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1. yes but its taxpayer subsidies are probably not lagging in any way lol nt

[OnlinePoker]

2. Neither are the bird mortalities caused by the plants

The workers there call them "streamers".