Nevada Solar One

Nevada Solar One
	Solar thermal power plant Nevada Solar One right. On the left a photovoltaic system.
	location
	Nevada , United States
Coordinates	35 ° 48 '0 " N , 114 ° 58' 36" W Coordinates: 35 ° 48 '0 " N , 114 ° 58' 36" W.
country	United States
	Data
Type	Solar thermal power plant (paraboloid)
Primary energy	solar power
power	75 MW el
owner	Acciona Group (55%) ; Solargenix (45%)
Project start	2006
Start of operations	2007
turbine	SST-700 steam turbine from Siemens
Energy fed in 2016	119 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning	1,144 GWh
Website	The solar power plant on the operator's side
was standing	December 31, 2016

Nevada Solar One near Boulder City in the American state of Nevada is a solar thermal power plant . The 64 MW system, which went online in June 2007 , was built by the US Department of Energy ( DOE), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL and the company Solargenix Energy . The Spanish Acciona Group has taken over 55% of Solargenix and is now the owner of the large facility, which extends over 1.4 km².

General

The solar trough power plant uses 19,300 absorber tubes (Schott PTR70), each four meters long, which were developed and manufactured by the German company Schott . With an oil circulating through pipes, which is heated to 400 degrees Celsius by the mirrors, steam is generated via a heat exchanger. A Siemens - steam turbine of the type SST-700 (electric power: 64 MW ) drives with the steam to a generator to generate electricity. So 15,000 households can be supplied with electricity .

Nevada Solar One was the first solar power plant in the United States in 15 years and is considered another milestone in the history of electricity generation from renewable energies in the United States. The plant, which is expected to spark the start of a new solar thermal power plant in the southwest of the USA, can be expanded to up to 200 megawatts. Nevada intends to cover 20 percent of its electricity needs with solar power by 2015.

Energy fed in

Energy fed into Nevada Solar One is as follows (values in GWh ).

**Nevada Solar One Energy fed in (GWh)**
year	Sun	natural gas	total
2007	41.21	0.38	41.59
2008	122.69	0.91	123.60
2009	120.65	2.43	123.07
2010	133.00	1.16	134.16
2011	128.26	1.99	130.26
2012	128.94	1.39	130.33
2013	112.79	2.31	115.10
2014	116.23	2.58	118.80
2015	105.65	2.14	107.79
2016	116.89	2.24	119.13