Press Release: Nation's Largest (2.4 GW) Proposed Solar and Storage Project Receives Final (Oregon) State Approval

[OKIsItJustMe]

https://pinegaterenewables.com/nations-largest-proposed-solar-and-storage-project-receives-final-state-approval/

Nation's Largest Proposed Solar and Storage Project Receives Final State Approval
The 2.4 GW project in Eastern Oregon is owned by Pine Gate Renewables

December 6, 2024

Asheville, North Carolina – The United States’ largest proposed solar project, Sunstone Solar, received its final discretionary approval from the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC). The approval was the final step in the state’s rigorous evaluation and public engagement process and authorizes project owner Pine Gate Renewables to proceed with constructing the 1200 MW solar and 1200 MW storage project. This milestone marks a significant step forward for Pine Gate Renewables, the state of Oregon, and clean energy nationwide.

Prioritizing community needs and benefits, Pine Gate worked extensively with Morrow County and agricultural organizations to create a program that aims to offset the project’s impact on the local agricultural economy. The first-of-its-kind initiative will invest over a thousand dollars per project acre into a County-managed fund for programs that support the local agricultural economy and improve the long-term viability and resilience of Morrow County’s wheat farms.

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“As a lifelong resident of Morrow County, I’m excited for Sunstone Solar to move forward so the local community can benefit from the economic opportunities that the project will bring,” said Ken Grieb, a wheat farmer and landowner in the project. “Pine Gate has demonstrated how large energy facility development can be done thoughtfully and collaboratively.”

Pine Gate owns and operates 17 other solar projects in Oregon. The company acquired the Sunstone Solar project from Gallatin Power Partners in 2022.

[NNadir]

1. The unit of energy is not the Watt. It's the Joule. A lighting bolt can produce a GW of power. It won't run Oregon.

It's very disturbing how it is that our media can't understand basic physics units, more disturbing that people repeat this shit mindlessly.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. You really are pitiful... Whinging about units?

I don’t know as I’ve every heard someone use Joules in relation to electricity.

A lightbulb is rated in terms of watts, not joules. Why? Because, when it is turned on, it draws a certain amount of power. When this array is producing power, it will be producing gigawatts.

By comparison, a nuclear reactor is typically said to produce about a gigawatt of power.

[NNadir]

3. Um, one could take a science class to understand the point.

I am completely aware that there are people who have not heard of electricity being described in units of energy, preferably as SI units.

Usually it shows, as it does here, particularly when accompanied with a cartoon. These types of cartoons are useful for children I guess, scientists, not so much.

I might have an alternate view of what is and is not pitiful, but no matter.

The unit of energy is the Joule, still. The derived unit, the Volt, is Joules/Coulomb. When Volts are multiplied by the derived unit Ampere, Coulombs per second, one attains the unit of power, the Watt, Joules per second. When one multiplies a Watt by time , the SI unit for which is the second, one obtains the unit for energy, again the Joule.

This kind of calculation should be covered in a high school physics course, under dimensional analysis.

The operative point is that a system that does not record the time that a system can be used is rather meaningless; to wit, it says nothing. This is why the poor capacity utilization associated with solar fantasies has done so little to address the collapse of the planetary atmosphere, because knowledge of what should be high school science lacks within the general public.