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Chevron Tests Emerging Solar Technologies in Central California

Former Bakersfield refinery converted to next-generation solar demonstration facility

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Chevron Corporation announced the start of Project Brightfield, a demonstration of next-generation solar energy technologies in Bakersfield, CA. The project, created on the site of a former Chevron refinery, will evaluate seven emerging photovoltaic technologies to help determine the potential application of renewable power at other company-owned facilities. The former refinery site has been repurposed to test the performance of six emerging thin-film technologies and one emerging crystalline...

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