Nevada Desert Solar Power Plant

The crescent dunes solar plant looks like something out of a sci fi movie.

Nevada desert solar power plant.

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. There are also plans to build other large solar plants in the mojave desert. 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. 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.

Tonopah s 110 megawatt plant in the nevada desert was billed as the first to be able to store solar energy. 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.