Claim: The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, which used mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver, generated a total of 195,810 MW/h in 2018 but only 50,168 MW/h in 2019 before it was mothballed.
Evidence: Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver. Crescent Dunes was the first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with a central receiver tower and advanced molten salt energy storage technology. 195,810 Generation (MW·h) of Crescent Dunes Solar Energy 50,168 mothballed 2018