Solar One - 10 MWe solar central receiver power plant: lessons learned in design, construction, and start-up
The Solar One project is a 10-MWe solar thermal central receiver power plant in operation near Barstow, California. The purpose of Solar One, the world's largest solar power plant, is to develop information and data to help assess the feasibility of larger, commercial solar thermal central receiver generating stations. As an energy research, development, and demonstration project, Solar One is producing information that is valuable to the electric utility industry in assessing this technology and, at the same time, producing electricity. A study was sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute to review the Solar One project and to identify technical lessons learned from the project of special interest to the electric utility industry. These lessons pertain to the design, construction, and initial operation of Solar One. Areas examined included system design features, plant equipment, project organization, plant operations, and environmental impact. The review was conducted from the perspective of an electric utility or its architect-engineer and focused upon those aspects of Solar One that would be of particular interest to such organizations.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
- OSTI ID:
- 5353031
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-830905-
- Journal Information:
- Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States), Vol. 83-JPGC-FU-2; Conference: Joint power generation conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 25 Sep 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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