Dive Summary:

• BrightSource Energy and Southern California Edison (SCE) have terminated a power purchase agreement for a solar thermal power plant near the city of Blythe, California.
• The termination stems from a mutual agreement between to the two companies and involves the Rio Mesa 2 project in the Mojave Desert.
• According to BrightSource, the largest impediment was a request by the state's energy commission for a minimum four-month schedule extension and delay.

From the article:

The major current project for BrightSource is a large solar plant in the Mojave Desert near the Ivanpah settlement. That solar complex is under construction.

"After more than a year of permitting review, we concluded that there remained a number of areas at the Rio Mesa site which required additional analysis," Keely Wachs, a BrightSource spokesman, said in a prepared release e-mailed to this newspaper. "It became clear that to adequately address those concerns in coordination with the state Energy Commission and Bureau of Land Management would have a detrimental timing impact to the Rio Mesa project." ...