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March 20, 2007, 12:03am PDT | Length: 00:02:15
Nevada Solar One, one of the biggest solar projects in recent U.S. history, is almost done. Set for completion in April, its home is outside Las Vegas in the sunny desert, where rows of mirrors bounce the sunlight into receptors. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
mouse2600 29th Jun
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At those numbers ($266 M to build, 134M kwh) and at the rate of retail electric cost ($0.05/kwh) where I live (IN) that means it will generate $6.7M of incoming per year. Which if every person worked for free and there were zero upkeep costs and zero taxes it will take 40 years to break even...

Ya, that sounds like a really good plan if we want to waste our federal tax dollars by giving out more handouts. Do these people that have $266 million dollars to waste even own a calculator? Go to big lots and spend two dollars before you waste a quarter million dollars building something that is failed before it starts.
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edward polling Updated - 4th Jul
Nevada Solar One is a concentrated solar power plant, with a nominal capacity of 64 MW and maximum capacity of 75 MW. The project required an investment of $266 million USD and electricity production is estimated to be 134 million kilowatt hours education news and per year. k l
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gaberdiye03 21st Jun
@edward polling 75 MW. The project required an investment of $266 million USD and electricity production is estimated to be 134 million kilowatt hours per year.
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Linux Love Updated - 4th Oct
This post comes courtesy of data dug up by Applied Materials, which has been releasing solar technology and industry statistics each year on the summer solstice. The figures in question come from the semiconductor company?s third annual solar energy survey, which covered 1,011 U.S. adults surveyed in early about it is bank that website attacked from the site support from any soldier site to the light home page is great June.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
Linux Love 26th Jun
You wear different sunblock depending on the intensity of the climate, so why shouldn?t the sort of solar technology vary depending on the part of the country where you live. That is exactly what is happening, of course, which is why you will start hearing more about the adoption of concentrating photovoltaic technology in the weeks and months to come.
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Linux Love 26th Jun
This was the theme of a conference call that I attended last week, hosted by the Solar Energy
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
Linux Love 26th Jun
More on that in a moment, but first I want to point to an entirely separate report recently released by GTM Research.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
Linux Love 26th Jun
That report notes that concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology remains a small fraction of the
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
Linux Love 26th Jun
installed solar technology capacity today: only 28 megawatts of the estimated 33,000 megawatts
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Linux Love 26th Jun
that are installed worldwide. But the pipeline of CPV projects has begun to grow, because of the
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Linux Love 26th Jun
potential for lower cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. We?re not talking about wild
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Linux Love 26th Jun
growth, but CPV capacity should reach 1,000 megawatts by 2015, if anticipated cost reduction and technology performance targets are met.
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Linux Love 26th Jun
There are three companies emerging at the front of the CPV crowd, according to GTM Research:
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Linux Love 26th Jun
Amonix, Concentrix Solar and SolFocus. According to the research firm, those companies account for
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Linux Love 26th Jun
almost 96 percent of the projects that are in operation or under development with signed power purchase agreements.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
Linux Love Updated - 28th Jun
During a recent press conference to discuss the potential for technology diversification in the utility-scale solar market, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said more companies in the business of solar are moving to diversify their investments in solar photovoltaic versus concentrating solar technologies.
Resch and other participants on the call saw the technologies as complementary, not competitive. For example, concentrating solar only makes sense where there is lots of land exposed to bright sunlight for most of the day, said Tom Georgis, senior vice president of development for ipad bag blog of best sutudeg community the modern short domain names country SolarReserve.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
mouse2600 29th Jun
@gaberdiye03

At those numbers ($266 M to build, 134M kwh) and at the rate of retail electric cost ($0.05/kwh) where I live (IN) that means it will generate $6.7M of incoming per year. Which if every person worked for free and there were zero upkeep costs and zero taxes it will take 40 years to break even...

Ya, that sounds like a really good plan if we want to waste our federal tax dollars by giving out more handouts. Do these people that have $266 million dollars to waste even own a calculator? Go to big lots and spend two dollars before you waste a quarter million dollars building something that is failed before it starts.
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RE: One of the biggest solar projects in U.S.
gaberdiye03 Updated - 21st Jun
@edward polling million USD and electricity production is estimated to be 134 million kilowatt hours per year. pembe maske energy balance oyna oyunu moliva orjin krem tutune son nanomatik complex 41

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