Nevada Desert Solar Power Plant

Enough to power 260 000 households in nevada arizona.

Nevada desert solar power plant.

Sitting in the nevada desert the new crescent dunes solar energy project is covered with more than 10 000 mirrors each the size of a small house that track the sun throughout the day and focus. The crescent dunes solar plant looks like something out of a sci fi movie. Tonopah s 110 megawatt plant in the nevada desert was billed as the first to be able to store solar energy. Brightsource s solar thermal system is operating at the ivanpah solar electric generating system isegs in california s mojave desert.

Ten thousand mirrors form a spiral almost 2 miles wide that winds around a skyscraper rising above the desert between las. There are also plans to build other large solar plants in the mojave desert. A stretch of the mojave desert has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world but the milestone is being met with criticism. The ivanpah solar electric generating system is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the mojave desert it is located at the base of clark mountain in california across the state line from primm nevada the plant has a gross capacity of 392 megawatts mw.

The ivanpah solar power facility is a 370 mw facility which consists of three separate solar thermal power plants just off interstate highway 15 on the nevada california border in the mojave desert. The project is currently the largest solar thermal power plant in the world. It deploys 173 500 heliostats each with two mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on three 459 ft 139 9 m tall solar power. But its technology which uses more than 10 000 mirrors to focus the sun s heat on a.

Some of the 300 000 computer controlled mirrors each about 7 feet high and 10 feet wide are shown at the ivanpah solar electric generating system in primm nev. Threatened mojave desert tortoise in nevada. The owner of a big nevada solar thermal power plant that received 737 million in loans from the u s.