New Solar Plants In California

The new brightsource solar power plant in california s mojave dessert.

New solar plants in california.

California s electric utility companies are required to use renewable energy to produce 33 percent of their power by 2020. What spans 1 600 hectares cost 2 2 billion to build and fries up to 28 000 birds per year. The plant which uses some. A main source of renewable power will be solar energy.

On may 27 around 1 p m solar plant operators shut off a record total of about 4 700 megawatts of capacity at the same time nearly 40 of the entire solar capacity installed on the california. 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. The new plants will be the first geothermal facilities built in california in nearly a decade potentially marking a long awaited turning point for a technology that could play a critical role. 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.

Solar thermal projects above 50 mw require approvals from both the blm and the energy commission prior to construction.