USA: 1 gigawatt thermal solar complex :-)

[Obamot]

That's it! The Americans have finally decided to get up to their necks in solar thermal! Obama ran out of budget and I feared the worst about his election promises in the area of ​​the environment, but the United States Department of Energy will provide a conditional loan of nearly $ 2 billion, for the most large solar thermal complex in the world (after Désertec in progress ... but it drags a bit ...).

... after the launch of Désertec:
https://www.econologie.com/l-energie-des ... -3814.html

... it finally moves!

USA: Green light for the world's largest solar complex

WASHINGTON - The US government has given the green light for the construction in California (western United States) of the largest solar energy complex in the world, Minister of Home Affairs Ken Salazar announced.

This facility, which consists of four solar power plants of 250 megawatts each, will be capable of producing up to 1.000 megawatts, enough electricity to power 300.000 to 750.000 homes and make it "the largest solar power plant in the world. world, ”Mr. Salazar said.

This project, led by Solar Millennium LLC, will extend over 2.842 hectares near Blythe in California and is expected to create 1.000 jobs at the height of construction.

Once built, the complex is expected to employ nearly 300 people on a permanent basis.

Solar Millennium can benefit from a conditional loan of $ 1,9 billion from the US Department of Energy for this project, said a statement from the Department of Home Affairs.

This latest project is in addition to a series of others in the renewable energy sector announced in recent weeks by the United States government.

Earlier in October, the Department of Home Affairs authorized the first of five renewable energy projects ever carried out on federal lands, including four in California and one in Nevada, two states particularly affected by the recession.

Mr. Salazar had also inaugurated the largest factory in the world for producing wind turbine masts in Pueblo, Colorado (west) built by the Danish group Vestas Wind Systems.

A week before, he had signed a lease for the installation of the first wind farm off the coast of New Jersey (northeast).

Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 6afd5a.191

[Edit: 1 TW => 1 gigawatt]

[Christophe]

Well well !!

Just a note: Solar Millennium is also one of the actors of the Desertec project (unless it is a namesake) ...

[Obamot]

Wi, wi, it's the same way it seems, it's implicit in the first para, or Désertec and quoted, at the same time as I am correcting the text of AFP. But you do well to remember because Désertec is ambitious and goes beyond borders, even those of the continents ...

It's normal that they are the ones who check out first for THE big piece! "Yes they can"!

... and we are told, after that in Europe, that solar thermal "Is not profitable", who "it's not for tomorrow" or "All this is only very theoretical"!

I am especially pleased to see the efficiency of energy storage in the ground for the daytime period and during cloud cover (by circulation of fluid in salt or molten silica, even in concrete blocks). We will finally see the transition from theory to practice in a full-scale structure of industrial energy production .... and finally be able to compare the real costs, with the fossil and fissile energy.

[Geepy]

Small precision for the title of the subject: 1000 megawatts = 1 gigawatt or 0,001 Terawatt