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.

Nevada desert solar power plant.

But its technology which uses more than 10 000 mirrors to focus the sun s heat on a. 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 crescent dunes solar plant looks like something out of a sci fi movie. Ten thousand mirrors form a spiral almost 2 miles wide that winds around a skyscraper rising above the desert between las.

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. 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.