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The frame and the walls are made of wood - a climate-positive building that stores carbon dioxide. Both sides of the roof and the balcony fronts and gables are made of solar cells. 15 apartments for rent in each of the three buildings owned by the building company ETC Bygg. On the ground floor there is a shared laundry and room for bicycles.
There is also a car pool with an electric car for the three buildings.
The buildings are very energy efficient. Statistics regarding energy use in the buildings after one year show that one building uses as much energy as a normal villa. But thirty people live in one building, in a villa normally 3-4. This means that the large buildings actually save around 90% of the energy cost compared to normal villas.
Built: 2022-23. Architects: Hans Eek and Kaminsky Arkitektur.
Sunrise/Solar/Energy/Transmission/Transportation - IMRAN™
During my recent visit to Pakistan, my brother were being driven to Islamabad from Lahore for a quick short trip for meetings he and I both had to attend coincidentally on the same date, We still had a 4-hours drive ahead of us. As we drove towards the motorway (expressway) I was trying to catch a picture of the sunrise (my mistake on the title) through the moving vehicle with lots of traffic around city roads. There were also lots of power transmission lines running parallel to the city exit road. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em, I thought. Making the best of an impossible situation of capturing a sunset by itself, I tried to capture it silhouetting one of the massive high voltage power transmission line towers. I got that timing pretty tight, but I could not prevent a rickshaw (three-wheeled Italian style mini-taxis notorious for their terrible fumes and pollution, until a lot of them converted to liquid natural gas. I was tempted to delete the photo, but suddenly it dawned on me.... pun intended... Sunrise, Solar, Energy, Power, Transmission, Transportation, all in shot, made more surreal by the motion blur of an unknown rickshaw driver caught in silhouette.
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Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Tonopah, Nevada.
This 110MW, 17,500 mirror solar energy project is currently in the final stages of construction and will be commissioned later in 2014.
Photographed from an altitude of 34,000 feet from American Airlines flight 59, JFK-SFO.
(Geotagged based on approximate location of aircraft at the time of the photo, according to data from Flightaware.com)
More info on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project
WIRED Magazine also has a YouTube overview of the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DylmjBPvo
Free solar filling station for electric vehicles for clients of the nearby supermarket.
Frankfurt Fechenheim
Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
The early morning air was cold and this dragonfly needa bit of a bask in the sunshine before it got going.
Radley Lakes, Oxfordshire
Solar panels and massive sunlight collector and concentrator.
Sorry if it's a bit blurred. Shot from a car moving at 75 MPH.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead!
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Solar energy plant directing funnelled sunlight acquired from all the panels on the ground I believe. Don't quite understand the technology from it but I wonder how many hawks and songbirds fly into the intense beams and get fried? On I-15 in the Mojave Desert of California.
Added to Monthly Scavenger Hunt (MSH) September 2013 10. New Accrual
These four flower power producers (there's a fifth one off-frame to the right) made their debut as solar energy collectors last month at Seattle Center. You can conduct your own electronic symphony by interacting with them--they produce harmonic tones as you move around them.
They're a demonstration project for alternative energy sponsored by Seattle City Light.
The position of each of these heliostats is adjusted every 10 seconds to optimize its position relative to the tower and the sun—that is, each of the heliostats except the two that appear to be taking a nap.
Notice how the surface of the heliostats in the distance appears to be pure white. They are perfectly reflecting the sky.
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The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a currently non-producing solar thermal power project with an installed capacity of 110 megawatt (MW) and 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage located near Tonopah, about 190 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Crescent Dunes was the first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with a central receiver tower and advanced molten salt energy storage technology.
Startup energy venture company SolarReserve, created via seed funding by US Renewables Group and United Technologies, was the original owner of Tonopah Solar Energy LLC, the owner and operator of the Crescent Dunes plant. The Crescent Dunes project was subsequently backed by a $737 million in U.S. government loan guarantees and by Tonopah partnering with Cobra Thermosolar Plants, Inc. The overall venture had a projected cost of less than $1 billion. The plant suffered several design, construction and technical problems, only achieving about a 20% capacity factor in 2018, resulting in lawsuits and changes of control. The Crescent Dunes site has not produced power since April 2019 and its sole customer, NV Energy, subsequently terminated their contract.
Since the initial failure of the Crescent Dunes project, SolarReserve took down their website and was believed to have permanently ceased operations. Upon the developer's silence as the involved parties sought legal recourse, the plant's exact status was publicly unknown for some time and was left to conjecture.
While proceeding through its subsequent bankruptcy proceedings, Tonopah Solar Energy stated that it had hopes for a restart of the Crescent Dunes plant by the end of 2020. According to court documents, Tonopah is owned by SolarReserve, Cobra Energy Investment LLC, a division of Spanish construction company ACS Group and Banco Santander, S.A.. On September 11, 2020, the bankruptcy court approved Tonopah Solar Energy's disclosure statement. On December 3, 2020 the Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan was confirmed by the court. As one result of this plan's confirmation, Cobra now has operational control of the plant.
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Status Date
Status DateJuly 07, 2021
Background
Break Ground Date2011
Expected Generation (GWh/year)500
Lat/Long Location38.239,-117.363
Total Power Station Land
Participants
DeveloperSolarReserve, ACS Cobra
USA, Spain
EPCCobra
Spain
OperatorSolarReserve's Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC
Electricity Generation OfftakerNV Energy
Costs
Total Construction Cost (2015)$ 983.00 million
Total Cost USD (2020)$1032.24 million
Specific Cost/kW USD (2020)$ 9384
LCOE USD/kWh (2020)$ 0.18
Levelised cost of electricity with 5% weighted average cost of capital and a 25 year payback period, capacity dependent O&M (1.5% of investment cost per year), deflated from Year_operational using the Worldbank's GDP deflator; if station under development or construction then not deflated (assumed cost year 2020)
Remuneration USD/kWh0.14
Remuneration Start Year2015
Remuneration USD/kWh Deflated (2020)0.14
PPA or Tariff Period (Years)25
Support Scheme TypeTender/PPA
Concessional Funding or Other SupportFederal Loan Guarantee $737 million, 30% investment tax credit
Plant Configuration
Solar Field
Solar Field Aperture Area (m²)1197148
# of Heliostats (or dishes for dish systems)10347
Heliostat Aperture Area (m²) (or dish aperature for dish systems)116
Collector/Heliostat Engineering or IP OwnerSolarrserve
USA
Collector/Heliostat ModelRocketdyne (Solarreserve)
Mirror ManufacturerFlabeg
Germany
Solar Field (Receiver)
Receiver Working FluidMolten salt
Receiver Working Fluid CategorySalt
Tower Height (m)195
Receiver ManufacturerRocketdyne (SolarReserve)
USA
Receiver ModelExternal - cylindrical
Power Block
Nominal Turbine or Power Cycle Capacity110 MW
Turbine ManufacturerAlstom
France
Power CycleSteam Rankine
Power Cycle Pressure (Bar)115
Cooling TypeHybrid
Thermal Energy Storage
Storage Type2-tank direct
Storage Capacity (Hours)10
Storage DescriptionThermal energy storage achieved by raising salt temperature from 550 to 1050 F. Thermal storage efficiency is 99%
Model: Raya Michelle
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
Despite indications that this remote desert complex is in fact the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project outside of Tonopah, Nevada, I'm not convinced. [Canon 6d / 24-105mm f/4L]
A building near us setting a good example
The water is Willow Lake, Flushing Meadows Park
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It was installed by BEP (Best Energy Power). They also put panels over the parking lot. There is a car charger (in the lot). They split the system into several parts so if one panels goes down the majority of the system still functions.
-- Local resident Peter Ngai
BEFORE: Cooling Tower at thermal Bayswater Power Station in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. Viewing the sun through the steam spoke to me of a coming generation, now with us, when electricity will be generated directly from solar energy.
NOW: I spent my day, today, contributing to the development of a major pumped hydro project that will draw on solar energy to store water in a reservoir 350 m above a lower lake. This pumped hydro project will stabilise the grid and provide electricity on demand in off-peak periods.
A hyperbolic tiling created using the Fractal Science Kit fractal generator. See www.fractalsciencekit.com/ for details.
A Hyperbolic Tiling replicates a polygon over the hyperbolic plane represented by the Poincare disk in such a way as to form a hyperbolic tiling pattern. The Poincare disk is a model for hyperbolic geometry that maps the hyperbolic plane onto the unit disk.