Blythe Solar Power Project

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The Blythe solar power plant is a configured NextEra Energy photovoltaic power plant in the Mojave Desert near Blythe ( California). This power plant was originally planned as a parabolic trough power plant. On 18 August 2011, however, was announced in a press statement that the project of solar thermal energy will be converted to PV. The decision was based on the current market situation.

The installed capacity was initially configured with around 1 GW in the final. There were plans for a total of four power generating units with a capacity of 242 MW in parabolic trough technology, which should together produce 2.2 TWh of electrical energy per year. The current should be fed into the grid of the utility Southern California Edison. The proposed footprint of the entire system is 27.5 km ². First construction measures were begun in late 2010, the official groundbreaking ceremony for the first two blocks should be held in June 2011. The commissioning of these two blocks was scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2013, two additional blocks were in the financing phase. The investment costs for the first two blocks should be approximately 2.8 billion dollars. A total of over $ 5 billion were estimated.

Solar Millennium originally held 70 % of the shares in Solar Trust of America. Solar Millennium tried as part of the bankruptcy resolution 2011 Solar Trust of Solar Hybrid for sale. Solar hybrid but also reported to insolvency, so that Solar Trust became insolvent as a result of the failed sale on April 2, 2012.

Footnotes

• Solar thermal power plant
• Power plant in North America
• Power plant in the United States
• Industrial building in California
• Built in the 2010s
• Riverside County