reflecting by Richardphotos

Photography • (none) • posted on Apr 01, 2013

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Description

Ivanpah BrightSource’s LPT solar thermal system is currently being deployed at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) in California’s Mojave Desert. Ivanpah, which started construction in October 2010, is the first project that will deliver power to serve the company’s signed contracts with PG&E and Southern California Edison. The project - which counts NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource as equity investors - is currently the largest solar plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. For more detailed information, visit www.IvanpahSolar.com Ivanpah Fact Sheet View Larger Map Project Overview A 377 megawatt net solar complex using mirrors to focus the power of the sun on solar receivers atop power towers. The electricity generated by all three plants is enough to serve more than 140,000 homes in California during the peak hours of the day. The complex will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 400,000 tons per year. Located in Ivanpah, approximately 50 miles northwest of Needles, California (about five miles from the California-Nevada border) on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The complex is comprised of three separate plants to be built in phases between 2010 and 2013, and will use BrightSource Energy’s LPT solar thermal technology.

Comments (32)

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zaigodou

5:42AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Great shot!!!!

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Cyve

5:48AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Fabulous capture !!!

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johndoop

5:59AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Seems a large building nice shot!!!

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Valeriya

6:02AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

A wonderful shot.

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dakotabluemoon

6:32AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

That's a strange looking thing never seen one of these good shot.

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magnus073

7:04AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Nice job on this very cool capture, Richard. I have never seen a picture of this before.

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Faemike55

7:55AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Very cool device and explanation

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jayfar

8:08AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

A very interesting project and a great landscape.

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kenmo

8:24AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Great capture...

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abreojos

8:25AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

I was wondering what this was when I drove by it. weather was real bad, snowing and blowing when I went by it in January!

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eekdog

8:59AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

great info and cool shot of it.

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byteline

8:59AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Hreat poroject and thanks for the info.

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bobrgallegos

9:05AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Great capture of this very interesting solar plant!

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barryjeffer

10:05AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

wow, this is good. About time someone started looking at the sun for energy instead of just a pretty yellow ball in the sky.

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UVDan

10:07AM | Mon, 01 April 2013

Beautiful shot. Three cheers for solar power. Every home in Arizona should be powered by it's own solar generator. You could line an old satellite dish with mirrors and focus the beam on something like a pressure cooker and feed the steam to a turbine powering a generator.

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