Huge Solar Panels Outside Las Vegas

The massive solar thermal farm ivanpah located in the desert about 45 minutes south of las vegas has produced and delivered its first energy to the power grid this week.

Huge solar panels outside las vegas.

The project outside las vegas also includes huge amounts of energy storage. The crescent dunes solar plant looks like something out of a sci fi movie. Biggest solar project in us outside vegas nears end of study this image shows the proposed area of the gemini solar project 30 miles northeast of las vegas. Out in the california desert just 40 miles southwest of las vegas the ivanpah solar electric generating system has been harnessing the power of the sun a little too effectively.

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. But a massive new solar plant sprawling over 1 670 acres near las vegas was designed to solve that problem. 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. It provides energy on demand even when it s dark.

The milestone is a major one that indicates the farm is almost ready to be fully turned on. Ten thousand mirrors form a spiral almost 2 miles wide that winds around a skyscraper rising above the desert between las. Nv energy will pay an average of 38 44 per megawatt hour for the combined output of the solar panels and batteries. By henry brean las vegas review journal october 11 2016 7 40 pm a photo from june 26 2014 shows the crescent dunes solar energy project outside tonopah about 225 miles northwest of las vegas.

Huge solar thermal plant opens near nevada california border.