Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-28

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00:01:18 1 Description
00:03:42 2 Fossil fuel consumption
00:05:56 3 Economic impact
00:07:04 4 Performance
00:09:39 4.1 May 2016 industrial accident
00:10:31 4.2 Awards
00:11:10 5 Environmental impacts
00:11:52 5.1 Desert tortoise
00:12:45 5.2 Birds
00:13:10 6 Production
00:15:40 6.1 Ivanpah 1 (126 MW gross)
00:16:40 6.2 Ivanpah 2 (133 MW gross)
00:19:46 6.3 Ivanpah 3 (133 MW gross)
00:20:02 6.4 Ivanpah Total (392 MW gross)
00:20:14 6.5 Ivanpah total annual production
00:20:26 7 Fossil fuel use
00:20:37 7.1 Ivanpah 1
00:21:22 7.2 Ivanpah 2
00:21:32 7.3 Ivanpah 3
00:21:48 7.4 Ivanpah Total
00:21:57 8 See also
00:22:06 9 References
00:22:16 10 External links
00:22:25 Not Reported
00:22:28 See also



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The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert. It is located at the base of Clark Mountain in California, across the state line from Primm, Nevada. The plant has a gross capacity of 392 megawatts (MW). It deploys 173,500 heliostats, each with two mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on three centralized solar power towers. The first unit of the system was connected to the electrical grid in September 2013 for an initial synchronisation test. The facility formally opened on February 13, 2014. In 2014, it was the world's largest solar thermal power station.The facility, costing $2.2 billion was developed by BrightSource Energy and Bechtel. The largest investor in the project was NRG Energy which contributed $300 million. Google contributed $168 million. The United States government provided a $1.6 billion loan guarantee and the plant is built on public land. In 2010, the project was scaled back from its original 440 MW design to avoid disturbing the habitat of the desert tortoise.