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YESTERDAY

THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT WEDNESDAY, August 23:

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  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And the EV Revolution
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  • Weekend Video: Impacts Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current Collapse
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 15-16:

  • Weekend Video: The Truth About China And The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Florida Insurance At The Climate Crisis Storm’s Eye
  • Weekend Video: The 9-1-1 On Rooftop Solar
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 8-9:

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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 1-2:

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  • Ukraine Faces The Climate Crisis While Fighting To Survive
  • Texas Heat And Politics Of Denial
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, June 17-18

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  • The Energy Storage Solution
  • New Energy Equity With Community Solar
  • Weekend Video: The Way Wind Can Help Win Wars
  • Weekend Video: New Support For Hydropower
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  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 1
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 2

    Thursday, December 01, 2016

    A Visionary Solar Power Plant

    TOP PLANT: Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Tonopah, Nevada

    Thomas W. Overton, December 1, 2016 (Power Magazine)

    “…[Nevada’s Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built by SolarReserve] shares a lot of similarities with other solar-tower CSP plants…Just over 10,000 billboard-sized heliostats, each about 1,200 square feet, focus sunlight on a central receiver at the top of a 640-foot tower. The plant uses the heat collected to generate steam and drive a turbine generator…What sets [the 110 MW] Crescent Dunes apart from its predecessors is that it incorporates 10 hours of full-power thermal energy storage…[A] molten salt system circulates the salt from a cold tank, through the solar tower, where it’s heated from 550F to 1,050F…[and sent] through a turbine-generator, then to an air-cooled condenser…The plant sells its power to Nevada utility NV Energy under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA). Since reaching commercial operations in November 2015, Crescent Dunes has…quietly exceeded its obligations, delivering 105% of contracted output. The molten salt receiver has achieved 100% availability through 2016, and performance data show that it’s operating 2% above its expected efficiency…” click here for more

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