I googled it to see what progress has been made. Quite a bite it seems. You never know with some of these projects. A lot seem to just get forgotten.
Crescent Dunes | SolarReserve
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Project Overview
-110 MW solar thermal power tower plant utilizing the advanced molten salt power tower technology with integrated storage.
-25-year power purchase agreement with NV Energy to sell 100 percent of the electricity generated by the power plant.
-When completed, the facility will supply approximately 500,000 megawatt hours annually of clean, renewable electricity, enough to power 75,000 homes during peak electricity periods.
-Closed financing in September 2011, including a $737 million loan from the Department of Energy and private financing from SolarReserve, ACS Cobra and Santander.
-Construction began in September 2011.
-Under the project’s unique development agreement with Nye County, SolarReserve has committed to filling 90 percent of the construction jobs with Nevada residents, utilizing both union and non-union subcontractors.
-The project is expected to be completed in 2014.
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Here is an image from January 14, 2014. That is quite the field of mirrors / heliostats! Cool stuff, thanks for bringing it up ecomodded. I've always wondered why there aren't more of these type of plants, especially in the middle of nowhere like this seems to show.
They aren't small mirrors either!
