Ivanpah Solar Tour

The ivanpah project is currently the world s largest operational solar thermal power plant.

Ivanpah solar tour.

However instead of burning fossil fuels to create the steam ivanpah uses the sun as fuel. While travelling from las vegas to los angeles on the i 15 you can easily see the ivanpah solar farm its vast and gleaming on a normal californian day well worth the viewing. Ivanpah employs an innovative system of software controlled mirrors called heliostats that follow the. Visitors can explore eight landmarks including each of the project s three towers the solar field and the exteriors and interiors of heliostat assembly and pad bonding buildings among others.

Ivanpah produces electricity the same way that most of the world s electricity is produced which is creating high temperature steam to turn a conventional turbine. The ivanpah system consists of three solar thermal power plants on 3 500 acres 1 400 ha of public land near the california nevada border in the southwestern united states. Ivanpah which began commercial operation in 2013 is delivering power to pg e and southern california edison. Mirrors are used to concentrate sunlight and create steam which is then converted to electricity.

Initially it was planned with 440 mw gross on 4 000 acres 1 600 ha of land but then downgraded by 12. It is near interstate 15 and north of ivanpah california. Ivanpah brightsource s solar thermal system is operating at the ivanpah solar electric generating system isegs in california s mojave desert. While travelling from las vegas to los angeles on the i 15 you can easily see the ivanpah solar farm its vast and gleaming on a normal californian day well worth the viewing.

By way of comparison another nonpolluting source of electricity nuclear power plant the millstone reactor no. Sometime in the next few months the ivanpah solar electric generating system will flip the switch on the largest solar plant of its kind in the world. A 377 megawatt 3 500 acre solar thermal. The project is currently the largest solar thermal power plant in the world.

Ivanpah uses power tower solar thermal technology to generate power by creating high temperature steam to drive a conventional steam turbine. Ivanpah the world s largest solar plant is a glittering sea of mirrors concentrating sunlight into three glowing towers. It is a futuristic vision rising out of the mojave desert.