California PUC Rules "Forbearance Agreements" Re: Ivanpah Solar Experiment Are Confidential, Though Paid For By Taxpayers -- March 30, 2016

I've blogged often about the solar science project at Ivanpah in California. A reader sent me another article on the same. It's an important article.

Briefly: the solar farm is not meeting production targets, which under "normal circumstances" would allow utilities to claim "breach of contract" which could threaten to shut down Ivanpah. To prevent this from happening, the California Public Utilities Commission "saved the day," by granting the company an extension to meet those promised (and contractual) production targets.

This is why the article is important. This is what Californians are being told about the cost of preventing "breach of contract" lawsuits, in its entirety:

ESTIMATED COST:

• Actual costs of the Forbearance Agreements are confidential at this time. 

Maybe The Los Angeles Times will submit a request for this information under the Freedom of Information Act. Certainly this is not a national security issue.

I track the Ivanpah links here.