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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Epic Solar Power Fail Gets Even More Epic-er Power Line by Steven Hayward Last we checked in on the $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar power facility out in the California desert, it was in danger of being shut down because it was failing to produce the promised amount of electricity, despite all that free desert sunshine. (Before that we reported in how it was merely incinerating birds by the hundreds.)setting itself on fire :PRIMM, Nev. (AP) — A small fire shut down a generating tower Thursday at the world’s largest solar power plant, leaving the sprawling facility on the California-Nevada border operating at only a third of its capacity, authorities said. But some misaligned mirrors instead focused sunbeams on a different level of Unit 3, causing electrical cables to catch fire , San Bernardino County, California fire Capt. Mike McClintock said. . . but a second tower is shut down for maintenance, leaving only one running. But here’s the most fun sentence in the story:It was not immediately clear what impact that would have on California’s electricity supply.
