Nevada Desert Solar Power Plant

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.

Nevada desert solar power plant. Ten thousand mirrors form a spiral almost 2 miles wide that winds around a skyscraper rising above the desert between las. Some of the 300 000 computer controlled mirrors each about 7 feet high and 10 feet wide are shown at the ivanpah solar electric generating system in primm nev. But its technology which uses more than 10 000 mirrors to focus the sun s heat on a. The ivanpah solar power facility is a 370 mw facility which consists of three separate solar thermal power plants just off interstate highway 15 on the nevada california border in the mojave desert.

The crescent dunes solar plant looks like something out of a sci fi movie. There are also plans to build other large solar plants in the mojave desert.