The largest solar power plant built anywhere in the world in the last 15 years is set to get under way next month in Boulder City, Nevada. Solargenix Energy said this week that it will break ground in January on its 64-megawatt solar power plant, dubbed Nevada Solar One. Construction is expected to take 12 to 14 months, with the plant scheduled to begin delivering electricity to the grid in June 2007. The plant will use parabolic trough technology, a system in which parabolically shaped mirrors are used to focus the suns rays on a tube containing heat transfer fluid which in turn provides the heat to generate the steam used to power the turbines which drive electric generators. Similar technology was used for nine power plants built in California between 1984 and 1990, which are still operating. Solargenix has been placing orders for equipment for some time as typified by an order to Shott reported in a previous post.
Resource: Bright future expected for solar project, Kevin Rademacher, Los Vegas Sun December 19, 2005
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"An average of 400 people worked in the construction of the Nevada Solar One plant with peak employment of up to 850, totalling 1.5 million work hours. The plant was constructed in 16 months, a very positive figure if one takes into account that this is the first large-scale solar thermal plant to be built in many years."
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