Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
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Contracted power-delivery performance of 640 GWh/year from Units 1 and 3 and 336 GWh from Unit 2 was met by 2017, following sharply reduced production in the first few years of operation, particularly in the start-up year of 2014. In November 2014, the Associated Press reported that the facility was producing only "about half of its expected annual output". The California Energy Commission issued a statement blaming this on "cloud
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While fixed-tilt has higher power density than tracking (see prior slide), energy density was largely toss-up until post-2015 divergence (driven by expansion of tracking to less-sunny sites— see bottom bullet)
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