Stirling Energy Systems solar power dishes

Three days ago, on August 9, 2005, Southern California Edison (SCE) "announced an agreement that could result in construction of a massive, 4,500-acre solar generating station in Southern California.  When completed, the proposed power station would be the world’s largest solar facility, capable of producing more electricity than all other U.S. solar projects combined."

You can read the SCE press release containing this announcement by clicking on its title: "Major New Solar Energy Project Announced By Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc."

The next day, Stirling Energy Systems, the company that will build and operate the world's largest solar energy facility for SCE and provide massive amounts of clean, renewable electricity for SCE's customers, made an announcement of its own, which you can read by clicking on its title: "World's Largest Solar Energy Project Announced by Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. and Southern California Edison.".

Solar World spoke this afternoon with Robert Liden, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Stirling Energy Systems to talk about this large deployment of renewable energy-generating equipment in California's Mojave Desert, northeast of Los Angeles.

During that interview, Mr. Liden estimated that that project will generate, in addition to electricity, "somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 to 5,000 jobs during the construction phase and about 100 to 200 jobs for operation and support of a 500-megawatt plant, and, including the replacement component manufacturing and all of the community support type of things, that amounts to somewhere between 350 and 600 on-going jobs at the site and related support."