Nevada Solar One

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Nevada Solar One will be the third largest solar power plant in the world, generating 64MW. Nevada Solar One is unrelated to Solar One, aside from having a similar name. Nevada Solar One is being built in Boulder City, Nevada by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Solargenix Energy. Spanish conglomerate Acciona purchased a 55% stake in Solargenix and as a result now owns 100% of the Nevada Solar One thermal project.[1]

Nevada Solar One will use parabolic troughs as thermal solar concentrators, heating tubes of liquid, instead of the power tower concentrator (as Solar One used). Parabolic concentrators have been successfully operating in California commercially since 1984, including the largest solar power plant of any kind, the 350 MW Solar Energy Generating Systems. Given Nevada's land and sun resources the state has the ability to produce more than 600GW using solar thermal concentrators like those that will be used in Nevada Solar One.

Nevada Solar One is scheduled to start producing electricity by the year 2007.[2] Other parabolic trough power plants being built are a 1MW plant Arizona, two 50MW plants in Spain, and one 500MW plant in Israel.[3]

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  1. ^ ACCIONA invests 220 million euros in a solar thermal electric power plant in Nevada (USA), 13/02/2006, http://www.acciona.es/default.asp?x=0002060101&z=000105&item=152&bus=1, accessed October 23, 2006
  2. ^ Nevada to Get World’s Third Largest Solar Electric Power Plant, http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/EnvironmentNewsService/2005/10/19/1057454, Environment News Service (ENS), Oct 19, 2005, accessed September 7, 2006
  3. ^ About Parabolic Trough Solar, http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/09/about_parabolic.html, The Energy Blog, James Fraser, September 3, 2005, accessed September 7, 2006


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