Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 14'0 " N , 117 ° 22'1" W | ||
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 United States
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| Type | Solar thermal power plant # Solar tower power plants | ||
| Primary energy | solar power | ||
| power | 110 MW el | ||
| owner | Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC | ||
| Project start | 2010 | ||
| Start of operations | 2015 | ||
| Shutdown | 2019 | ||
| turbine | Steam turbine | ||
| Energy fed in per year | 624 GWh | ||
| Website | (English) | ||
| was standing | Oct. 2018 | ||
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a solar thermal power plant with an output of around 110 megawatts. It is near Tonopah , Nevada .
history
The plant went into operation in 2015 and had to be abandoned again in 2019 due to inefficiency.
It missed its intended electricity production significantly as it only reached about 40% of its planned amount, which led to lawsuits. Since April 2019, the location has stopped producing electricity after the last customer canceled. Crescent Dunes was the first Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power plant with a central receiver tower and advanced molten salt energy storage technology from SolarReserve. The power plant was developed by SolarReserve and is owned by Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC. It was supposed to cost less than $ 1 billion and was backed by a US government loan guarantee of $ 737 million.
Environmental aspects
Birds that accidentally flew through near the tower were burned or seared in the air with a visible trace of smoke and fell to the ground with scorched plumage. Biologists have investigated that, depending on the time of year, between ten individuals a month and up to several hundred birds fell victim to the facility every day. The fresh carcasses fed stray cats or were consumed by scavengers.
It should be noted that, according to the best currently available estimate, at least 100 million birds die every year in Germany alone as a result of colliding with glass panes on the windows of houses or winter gardens, on the glass facades of office buildings and on glazed noise barriers or bus stops. Power lines are also tricky for birds. In a study by the nature conservation association NABU, 1.5 to 2.8 million birds die each year from power lines.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Almost a billion sunk: Huge solar power plant is superfluous after four years. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ^ Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project | Concentrating Solar Power Projects. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Bloomberg: A $ 1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ One Weird Trick Prevents Bird Deaths At Solar Towers
- ^ Bird deaths at Nev. plant remain a mystery
- ↑ glass: million times Bird Killer
- ↑ NABU: Too many birds die when they collide with power lines