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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. The top of Tower 1's is "lit" as steam blow tests are in progress.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: The top of Tower 1's is "lit" as a steam blow test is in progress in this aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Seguidores de la planta solar fotovoltaica Sevilla PV. Concentración 2x mediante reflexión de la radiación solar. Tracking devices in Sevilla PV plant, concentration 2x by reflection of solar radiation.
LLNL engineer Tiziana Bond (center) is holding an etched silicon wafer with the nanopatterns. Second row from left to right: Bond's nanophotonics and plasmonics research team members from the LLNL Engineering Directorate Elaine Behymer, Allan Chang and Mihail Bora.
Original Caption: Flat plate solar heating collectors built by the Solaron Corporation, and installed on the roof of the Gump Glass Company in that city. Scope and content note: flat plate solar heating collectors built by the Solaron Corporation, and installed on the roof of the Gump Glass Company in that city. The installation is one of the first industrial uses of solar heating in the nation. The hot air collectors will provide heating for about 8,000 square feet of office space. A rock filled bin provides storage of heat for evening and bad weather use. The storage will provide for up to two cloudy days of heat before requiring supplementary heat from a conventional source, 05/1975.
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14868
Photographer: Norton, Boyd
Subjects:
Environmental protection
Natural resources
Pollution
Denver (Colorado, United States) inhabited place
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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: Heliostats, seen from the top of the tower, surround Tower 1 at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Original Caption: Solar heating and cooling demonstration project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. This home is one of three completed by the university using a liquid solar heating system for both heating and air conditioning. The system has drawbacks corrosion is a problem, an anti-freeze must be added on cold nights and heavy reinforcement is required for the roof because of the rooftop collectors, 05/1975.
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14877
Photographer: Norton, Boyd
Subjects:
Environmental protection
Natural resources
Pollution
Fort Collins (Colorado, United States) inhabited place
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/557329
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Heidel Hollow Farms has been a family owned farm since 1852 and is currently an 1,800 acre operation in Germansville, PA. Led by David Fink, President of Heidel Hollow Farms, they mainly produce and compact hay for export and grow produce on 300 acres for local sale. With the financial help of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) an 896 panel solar array was recently installed on non farmable diversion ditches. Rated at 200 kilowatts, they project 240 megawatts of electricity to be produced each year, providing up to 70% of the farms electrical needs. Electrical energy is sent into the local power grid for credit and draw power from the grid with preexisting connections. Photograph was taken on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
The historic COP21 climate meeting in Paris. Great photo moments and video. Open to connect.
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Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, secretary of the Floating Solar Energy Project, for Da Mi Ham Thuan Da Nhim Hydro Power (DHD).
The Floating Solar Energy Project finances the Da Nhim - Ham Thuan - Da Mi Hydro Power Joint Stock Company (DHD) to install floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation panels, on the man-made reservoir of its existing 175 megawatt (MW) Da Mi hydropower plant.
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In addition to its huge oil reserves, Saudi Arabia is ideally located to utilize solar energy. The country has a significant solar energy research program with cooperative activities with the U.S., Germany and France and several experimental "solar energy villages". I took this photo at a solar energy research center near Rhiyad.
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. Tower 1's heliostast installation is nearly completed, and steam blow tests are taking place. Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors spread over 4,000 hectares, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to drive specially adapted steam turbines The project, developed by Bechtel, will cost $2.2 billion and be the largest solar farm in the world (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
April 30, 2020 - NREL researcher Rosemary Bramante laser s Cribes monolithic interconnects into a semitransparent solar module for a CRADA partner as part of the limited essential research staff moving from idle laboratories to essential-operations mode. She maintains safe social distancing and wears a mask as per COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Strategy at NREL’s STM campus. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
April 24, 2021 - A tractor among the solar array added to the theme during the farming ground-breaking event at Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, Colo. Visitors to the event had the opportunity to tour the farm, learn about agrivoltaics, and take part in various farm-related activities. Colorado state representatives Sonya Jaquez Lewis, Tracey Bernett, and Colorado Department of Agriculture Energy Specialist Sam Anderson were also in attendance to show their support. Jack’s Solar Garden is the largest crop-focused dedicated agrivoltaics site in the country. (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System with Tower 3 in the foreground, Tower 2 in the middle and Tower 1 in the background.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Local barefoot solar engineer cleaning PV panels in village outside Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. The about 8 kw output at the roof of a local solar workshop run a desalination pump system, providing clean drinking water for the village.
Power station managed by Da Nhim - Ham Thuan - Da Mi Hydro Power Joint Stock Company (DHD) at Bao Loc, Lam Dong Province, Viet Nam.
The Floating Solar Energy Project finances the Da Nhim - Ham Thuan - Da Mi Hydro Power Joint Stock Company (DHD) to install floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation panels, on the man-made reservoir of its existing 175 megawatt (MW) Da Mi hydropower plant.
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July 26, 2017 - Nipton, CA- Contracted workers clean Heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Project, owned by NRG Energy, Bright Source Energy,Bechtel and Google. Over 300,000 software-controlled mirrors track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight to boilers that sit atop three 459 foot tall power towers. The facility employs over 65 operations and maintenance workers and over 2,600 jobs during it's 3 year construction period. (Photo by DENNIS SCHROEDER / NREL)
The school in Stadsskogen in Alingsås City is Sweden´s first school certified as zero energy bulding. The roof is covered with 1300 sqm solar cells, then the largest solar cell unit on building in Sweden.
Built: 2013. Architect: Liljewall arkitekter.
www.liljewall-arkitekter.se (website only in Swedish)
www.nollhus.se (website only in Swedish)
Aerial view of solar panels and a creek at Sauerbier Ranches LLC, where producer Dan Doornbos (vest) and son-in-law ranch operator Ryan Ellis, were able to implement brush management practices and install a solar-powered (photovoltaic) electric well pump and distribution system with the help of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources and Conservation Service (NRCS) John Wagoner (cowboy hat), at Sweetwater Basin, in southwest Montana, on August 27, 2019. Brush management practice has opened the rangeland for cattle to better graze and improve the land. On other parts of the ranches, well pumps draw water from the aquifer below a creek. The pump pushes water through pipelines, up to rangelands more than two miles away to draw cattle to a variety of grazing areas. This improves the water quality by drawing the cattle from the nearby flowing creek; provides more water from a more stable underground water resource; allows the land to rest from the presence of the cattle; allows the manure to return to the soil so that the plants can better grow back, and provides drinking water for the cattle in remote rangelands.
Brush Management is the management or removal of woody (non-herbaceous or succulent) plants including those that are invasive and noxious. This creates the desired plant community consistent with the ecological site or a desired state within the site description; restores or release desired vegetative cover to protect soils, control erosion, reduce sediment, improve water quality, or enhance hydrology.• Maintain, modify, or enhance fish and wildlife habitat; improves forage accessibility, quality, and quantity for livestock and wildlife; Manages fuel loads to achieve desired conditions; controls pervasive plant species to a desired level of treatment that will ultimately contribute to creation or maintenance of an ecological site description “steady-state” addressing the need for forage, wildlife habitat, and/or water quality.
Pumping Plant is a facility that delivers water at a designed pressure and flow rate. Includes the required pump(s), associated power unit(s), plumbing, appurtenances, and may include on-site fuel or energy source(s), and protective structures.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Brush Management - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1254946.pdf
Water Well - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_026211.pdf
Pumping Plant Pumping Plan - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1046901.pdf
NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
Brush Management is the management or removal of woody (non-herbaceous or succulent) plants including those that are invasive and noxious. This creates the desired plant community consistent with the ecological site or a desired state within the site description; restores or release desired vegetative cover to protect soils, control erosion, reduce sediment, improve water quality, or enhance hydrology.• Maintain, modify, or enhance fish and wildlife habitat; improves forage accessibility, quality, and quantity for livestock and wildlife; Manages fuel loads to achieve desired conditions; controls pervasive plant species to a desired level of treatment that will ultimately contribute to creation or maintenance of an ecological site description “steady-state” addressing the need for forage, wildlife habitat, and/or water quality.
Pumping Plant is a facility that delivers water at a designed pressure and flow rate. Includes the required pump(s), associated power unit(s), plumbing, appurtenances, and may include on-site fuel or energy source(s), and protective structures.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Brush Management - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1254946.pdf
Water Well - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_026211.pdf
Pumping Plant Pumping Plan - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1046901.pdf
NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
Brush Management is the management or removal of woody (non-herbaceous or succulent) plants including those that are invasive and noxious. This creates the desired plant community consistent with the ecological site or a desired state within the site description; restores or release desired vegetative cover to protect soils, control erosion, reduce sediment, improve water quality, or enhance hydrology.• Maintain, modify, or enhance fish and wildlife habitat; improves forage accessibility, quality, and quantity for livestock and wildlife; Manages fuel loads to achieve desired conditions; controls pervasive plant species to a desired level of treatment that will ultimately contribute to creation or maintenance of an ecological site description “steady state” addressing the need for forage, wildlife habitat, and/or water quality.
Pumping Plant is a facility that delivers water at a designed pressure and flow rate. Includes the required pump(s), associated power unit(s), plumbing, appurtenances, and may include on-site fuel or energy source(s), and protective structures.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Brush Management - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1254946.pdf
Water Well - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_026211.pdf
Pumping Plant Pumping Plan - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1046901.pdf
NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
Brush Management is the management or removal of woody (non-herbaceous or succulent) plants including those that are invasive and noxious. This creates the desired plant community consistent with the ecological site or a desired state within the site description; restores or release desired vegetative cover to protect soils, control erosion, reduce sediment, improve water quality, or enhance hydrology.• Maintain, modify, or enhance fish and wildlife habitat; improves forage accessibility, quality, and quantity for livestock and wildlife; Manages fuel loads to achieve desired conditions; controls pervasive plant species to a desired level of treatment that will ultimately contribute to creation or maintenance of an ecological site description “steady state” addressing the need for forage, wildlife habitat, and/or water quality.
Pumping Plant is a facility that delivers water at a designed pressure and flow rate. Includes the required pump(s), associated power unit(s), plumbing, appurtenances, and may include on-site fuel or energy source(s), and protective structures.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Brush Management - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1254946.pdf
Water Well - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_026211.pdf
Pumping Plant Pumping Plan - nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1046901.pdf
NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
5-room apartments in 2 storeys. The porches has two doors each to prevent cold air from blowing inside in the winter.
27 apartments for rent, from 2-room to 5-room apartments, all with an own carport. Built: 2007. Architect: Contekton. Builder: Skanska. Owner: Uddevallahem.
For a Passive House in a cold climate no radiators or under-floor heating are necessary. The building is superinsulated and airtight and has therefore only minor transmission and ventilation losses. It is primarily heated by radiated solar energy, heat produced by humans, household machinery, domestic electronic equipment and light fittings.
The purpose of my trip to Portugal: the huge solar cell array near Moura.
Here is an ultra-wide angle panorama.
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility at sunrise, with left to right Tower 1, 2 and 3, where heliostas installation is nearly completed.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
September 25, 2020 - Byron Kominek, owner of Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, Colo., drives a tractor away following a kickoff event for the farm. Jack’s is one of 30 agrivoltaics research sites being studied by the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) research partners at NREL and Colorado State University as part of the Innovative Site Preparation and Impact Reductions on the Environment (InSPIRE) project. (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 04 2013: Tower 1's heliostats under a cloudy sky at sunset, with Tower 2 and 3 in the distance, at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Solar cookers designed by the barefoot engineers of Barefoot College, Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. A mechanism built from used bi-cycle parts turns the mirrors, making sure they face the sun at the best angle all day.
Solar energy is used to light village shop. Sri Lanka. Photo: © Dominic Sansoni / World Bank
Photo ID; DSA0025SLA World Bank
When completed, this solar energy array near OSU's Trysting Tree golf course will have a capacity of 450 kilowatts.
Title: Sola-motor at the Ostrich Farm.
Alternative Title: [Solar-Powered Motor by Aubrey Eneas, Cawston Ostrich Farm]
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1902
Part Of: Tourist album: Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah
Place: South Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
Description: This is one of 287 photographs in an album entitled, 'Tourist Album: Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah.' This early example of solar energy designed and built by Aubrey Eneas was used to irrigate the Cawston Ostrich farm, transforming it from a "dry, dusty farm to a lush garden full of flowers."
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, part of 1 album (287 gelatin silver prints); 10 x 13 cm on 28 x 35 cm mount
File: ag2000_1304_62a_2_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: As seen from the top of the tower just below the boiler section, heliostats surrounding Tower 1 reflect sunlight toward the tower's top at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
July 23, 2017 - Tonapah, NV- Workers use a mechanized washing truck to clean over 10,000 tracking heliostats at the Crescent Dunes Solar Thermal Facility, owned by SolarReserve. The facility, built with US sourced steel, glass and technology, provides more than 500,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year, using molten salt technology to provide electricity day or night. (Photo by DENNIS SCHROEDER / NREL)
Ivanpah solar generation plant. A 377 megawatt net solar complex using mirrors to focus the power of the sun on solar receivers atop power towers.
•The electricity generated by all three plants is enough to serve more than 140,000 homes in California during the peak hours of the day.
www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.WMdKwMo...
The solar shade fully deployed uses flexible solar panels to provide two kilowatts of power daily. Using flexible solar cells could eventually save millions in Army fuel costs. In fact, the project was recently nominated for recognition in the Secretary of the Army Water and Energy Awards because of the more than $230,000 savings by using the solar shade.
U.S. Army photo
The silence of nonpolluting solar energy at work will someday replace the hum of muffled generators in remote field locations.
Maj. Tim Franklin from the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command is the lead in coordinating an experiment using flexible solar cells that could eventually save millions in Army fuel costs. In fact, the project was recently nominated for recognition in the Annual Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Awards because of the more than $230,000 savings by using the solar shade.
The concept is simple – flexible solar cells affixed to a sun shelter then connected to a system of storage batteries.
“Solar shade produces two kilowatts of power -- that may not seem like a lot, but in a remote area it’s perfect because you don’t have to worry about transporting fuel or replacing parts,” Franklin said. “You could place this on a remote mountain site to provide power for a radio retransmission site [since] it requires very little maintenance,” Franklin said.
Flexible Solar Cell System
Quiet
Requires minimal maintenance
Produces clean energy from the sun
Works at night pending storage batteries charged
Cost effective
Operating area requires 40 by 60-foot area
Franklin added that the heart of the solar shade consist of four Hawker High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle batteries with a balancing system featuring a simple voltage meter with a 110 volt power inverter.
In July 2010, with the help of Kansas Army National Guardsmen assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, Franklin along with Steve Tucker, the lead for alternative power programs at U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, traveled to Djibouti to set-up the solar shade.
Solar Cell Energy at Work
Running on fans, hand-held radio chargers and lights, the system has been cranking out two kilowatts of power daily, Franklin said.
“Soldiers with the Kansas Guard have been using the shade every day since last July – it has even survived some storms that damaged other structures,” Franklin said. “In the near future, [Steve and I] will travel to Djibouti to train a new group of CJTF – HOA Kansas National Guard Soldiers on use of the solar shade.”
Because of the overall benefits, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa wants to keep the equipment and have added it to their property books since they plan to use it in other locations and on other missions in Africa.
“The solar shade produces power and gets about 70 to 80 percent blockage of the sun, so the shade is cooler than many of tents or shades used now and it produces clean energy from the sun,” Franklin said.
“You’re actually reducing the use of air conditioning units too, so there’s really a triple benefit along with the free clean source of energy,” he said.
Franklin concluded that they haven’t yet heard how they fared in the 33rd Annual Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Awards, but to be nominated is such an honor.
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The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 megawatt (MW) net solar thermal power project with 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage, located near Tonopah, about 190 miles (310 km) northwest of Las Vegas.It is the first utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) plant with a central receiver tower and advanced molten salt energy storage technology from SolarReserve. The project, developed by SolarReserve and owned by Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC. was anticipated to cost less than $1 billion. EPC Contractor was ACS Cobra, which carried out the engineering design, procured the equipment and materials necessary, and then constructed and delivered the facility to Tonopah Solar Energy.