Ivanpah Solar Tour

However instead of burning fossil fuels to create the steam ivanpah uses the sun as fuel.

Ivanpah solar tour.

A 377 megawatt 3 500 acre solar thermal. While travelling from las vegas to los angeles on the i 15 you can easily see the ivanpah solar farm its vast and gleaming on a normal californian day well worth the viewing. The project is currently the largest solar thermal power plant in the world. Ivanpah produces electricity the same way that most of the world s electricity is produced which is creating high temperature steam to turn a conventional turbine.

It is near interstate 15 and north of ivanpah california. The ivanpah virtual tour is a collection of images stitched together to offer dramatic 360 views of this truly iconic project. By way of comparison another nonpolluting source of electricity nuclear power plant the millstone reactor no. Ivanpah uses power tower solar thermal technology to generate power by creating high temperature steam to drive a conventional steam turbine.

Mirrors are used to concentrate sunlight and create steam which is then converted to electricity. Ivanpah which began commercial operation in 2013 is delivering power to pg e and southern california edison. Visitors can explore eight landmarks including each of the project s three towers the solar field and the exteriors and interiors of heliostat assembly and pad bonding buildings among others. The ivanpah project is currently the world s largest operational solar thermal power plant.

Initially it was planned with 440 mw gross on 4 000 acres 1 600 ha of land but then downgraded by 12. It is a futuristic vision rising out of the mojave desert. Sometime in the next few months the ivanpah solar electric generating system will flip the switch on the largest solar plant of its kind in the world. The 2200 million dollars per 120 million watts represents an 18 dollars per watt w investment.

Ivanpah employs an innovative system of software controlled mirrors called heliostats that follow the. 2 in connecticut operating at 880 mw since 1975 cost 0 5 w making ivanpah 36 times more expensive inflation excluded the newest and largest solar power plant in. Ivanpah brightsource s solar thermal system is operating at the ivanpah solar electric generating system isegs in california s mojave desert.