The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System

USA / Nevada / Goodsprings / Coloseum Road
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The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (owned by NRG Energy, Google, and BrightSource Energy) consists of three separate solar thermal power plants in south-eastern California producing nearly 400 megawatts. The facility consists of fields of heliostat mirrors focusing sunlight on receivers located on centralized solar power towers. The receivers generate steam to drive specially adapted steam turbines. For the first plant, the largest ever fully solar-powered steam turbine-generator set was ordered, using a 123 MW Siemens SST-900 dual-casing reheat turbine.

P.E.T.A. carries on about the birds being fried by the solar beams

Using BrightSource’s proven solar tower technology to produce clean, reliable solar electricity to more than 140,000 homes.Ivanpah is the largest solar thermal power tower system in the world. Located in Ivanpah Dry Lake, California, the three-unit power system is built on approximately 3,500 acres of public desert land. Electricity from Ivanpah will avoid millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants – the equivalent of taking 70,000 cars off the road.

More info at: www.energy.ca.gov/powerplant/solar-thermal/ivanpah-sola...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
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Coordinates:   35°33'25"N   115°28'6"W

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  • Now in 2014 the plants are on-line , said to produce as much power as a standard natural gas powered plant.
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