Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, USA
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, California, USA
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, in the Mojave desert. The arrangement of mirrors seems rather haphazard and un-geometric compared to other solar power plants.
35°33’57.12″N 115°28’12.83″W
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is a solar thermal power project in the California Mojave Desert, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Las Vegas, with a planned gross capacity of 392 megawatts (MW). It deploys 173,500 heliostats each with two mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on centralized solar power towers.
The project attracted some controversy because of its location on desert habitat considered by wildlife officials and environmentalists to be important for the threatened desert tortoise. Unit 1 of the project was connected to the grid in September 2013 in an initial sync testing.
The facility formally opened on February 13, 2014.
The Mojave desert tortoise doesn’t come across as a high-roller.
But among land-going critters on the endangered species list, it’s among the top recipients of money spent by state and federal agencies trying to keep it from the brink of extinction, according to an Associated Press analysis of the last 11 years of available data.
From 1996 to 2006, more than $93 million was spent on managing the long-lived reptile, records show. That’s more than was spent on other species such as the grizzly bear, gray wolf or bald eagle.
Not bad for a pokey desert dweller that spends most of its time in underground burrows in parts of Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada.
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, CA
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, California, US.
Ivanpah Bird Roasting Facility, located in the California Mojave Desert, USA (35.566,-115.470)
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
Las Vegas, NV
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, San Bernardino County, California, USA, 35°34?N 115°28?W
World’s largest solar thermal plant – IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, Mojave Desert, California, USA
it is the Ivanpah solar farm, in California’s Mojave Desert! 🙂
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/02/13/worlds-largest-solar-plant-opens/
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, United States.
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, San Bernardino County, California
35.566667, -115.466667
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, USA
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, California, USA
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, in the Mojave desert. The arrangement of mirrors seems rather haphazard and un-geometric compared to other solar power plants.
35°33’57.12″N 115°28’12.83″W
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is a solar thermal power project in the California Mojave Desert, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Las Vegas, with a planned gross capacity of 392 megawatts (MW). It deploys 173,500 heliostats each with two mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on centralized solar power towers.
The project attracted some controversy because of its location on desert habitat considered by wildlife officials and environmentalists to be important for the threatened desert tortoise. Unit 1 of the project was connected to the grid in September 2013 in an initial sync testing.
The facility formally opened on February 13, 2014.
The Mojave desert tortoise doesn’t come across as a high-roller.
But among land-going critters on the endangered species list, it’s among the top recipients of money spent by state and federal agencies trying to keep it from the brink of extinction, according to an Associated Press analysis of the last 11 years of available data.
From 1996 to 2006, more than $93 million was spent on managing the long-lived reptile, records show. That’s more than was spent on other species such as the grizzly bear, gray wolf or bald eagle.
Not bad for a pokey desert dweller that spends most of its time in underground burrows in parts of Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada.
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, CA
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, California, US.
Ivanpah Bird Roasting Facility, located in the California Mojave Desert, USA (35.566,-115.470)
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
Las Vegas, NV
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, San Bernardino County, California, USA, 35°34?N 115°28?W
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It’s the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Plant.
Ivanpah solar electric generating system. Mohave desert – California USA
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
(Northern part of the middle-tower array)
Near I-15 and the California-Nevada State Line
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Ivanpah Dry Lake, CA 92364, United States
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, 64 km southwest from Las Vegas
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility near Las Vegas
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) in the California Mojave Desert.
35°33’57.34″N 115°28’14.74″W
http://ivanpahsolar.com/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/01/09/168945619/under-construction-the-worlds-largest-thermal-solar-plant
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. California’s Mojave Desert, USA
35°34?00?N
115°28?14.6?W
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California.
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
35.57°N 115.47°W
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
Ivanpah Dry Lake, CA 92364
United States
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