Re: Nevada Solar One now online
- From: "zzbunker@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <zzbunker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:44:27 -0700
On Jun 16, 12:24 am, xnich...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The 64MW Nevada Solar One concentrated solar power plant (CSP) has
gone online in the USA (June 2007). With 400 acres of solar
concentrators, Nevada Solar One has become the third biggest solar
thermal power plant in the world.
A total of 18,240 solar receivers have been installed each with a
mirrored parabolic trough which concentrates the sun's rays onto
vacuum tubes holding a heat transfer fluid. The hot fluid (heated by
the sun up to 300 degrees Celcius) from all of the solar collectors is
pumped through a heat exchanger generating steam which turns an
electricity generating turbine.
Nevada Solar One is the first Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant
built in the USA for fifteen years. The 64MW plant will generate
enough electricity to power 40,000 households during the daytime and
will join the 354MW of solar thermal power plants built in the Mojave
Desert in the 1980's as the United States' only major CSP plants. The
reduction in emissions thanks to using this clean electricity rather
than fossil fuels will be equivalent to the removal of one million
cars from the road.
The total cost of the project is around $240 million which will price
the electricity generated at around 9-13 cents per kWh. However, as
more of these facilities are built that price will come down to as
little as 7 cents per kWh which is very competitive with fossil fuels
today. Even at current pricing, the electricity generated by Nevada
Solar One will be the cheapest solar electricity produced in the
world, although still more expensive than current wind power
generation.
According to the US Department of Energy (DOE) there is enough
suitable land available in the state of Nevada to generate 600GW of
electricity with concentrated solar power. Currently the consumption
of electricity in Nevada is equivalent to just 3% of this capacity
which means that Nevada could sell vast amounts of electricity to
nearby power hungry California.
California is not really that power hungry though.
Since Los Vegas was originally even founded,
because nearby San Franciso is extremely gambling hungry,
not power hungry.
Collated from:-http://www.reuk.co.uk/print.php?article=Nevada-Solar-One-Switched-On.htm
see also:-http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/7150
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