Inside the world's largest solar plant

The world's largest solar thermal power plant is now online in California and can provide enough power for 140,000 homes.

[whileStillhere]

648MW Solar power plant in Tamilnadu India opened in Sept'16. Almost twice this size.More in pipeline

[ARIKRING]

It's a first of its kind, that is why it is so costly, a second "Ivanpah" would cost significantly less, and a third even less.
It is a remarkable engineering feat!

[thooke]

I drove by a place similar to this (maybe it was this site) years ago in the CA desert and the mirrors were all focusing on one spot in the air above.  It was glowing as if it were plasma.  Pretty cool.

[primalcaptive]

Such a shame it doesn't have Molten Salt Storage to provide around the clock capacity.

[nickatnight]

Where are all the other components that make the solar power plant run? Isn't there a building workers have to enter in order to maintain this solar power plant?

[solarcaliforniahomeownergu]

Awesome, This Solar Plant is great. more plants like these will provide a great savings in the electric Bills for homes and businesses.

[ElectricBuckeye]

I was always a fan of it. It works in desert areas with high sun concentration year-round. Doesn't work so well in Ohio where sunlight is pretty much just a summer occurrence.

[manasaa]

it must leaves cool smoke trates when birds fly through

[gourabdas]

Pavagada, Karnataka, India.... 2000 MW... Largest in the world...

[LightStreamer]

one of those rings is the size of my town

[mohammedasif]

Now Pavagada, Karnataka India has 2700Mw solar power, world's largest.

[Channel-trhx]

with that shitload of mirrors the efficiency must be small than 0.1% of total solar power

[untvnewsandrescuerizal]

If every houses is designed to have a mirror on the roof like this, we could make a society that is truly civilized.

[Shock-xflu]

So...how many birds 🦅 does this thing KILL by lightning them on 🔥 fire?
Is this saving the Environment???

Answer...about 6000 a year

[MindzEnt]

I wish i got 1.6 billion for private profit.

[sambitmukherjee]

392MW makes it the largest solar thermal plant. India has a 648MW solar photovoltaic plant.

[notmuchto]

How many birds it burn to death every day?

[sidvisious]

So they didn't say how long or if it will be capable of paying the government (us) back or if it was actually going to save the people using the electricity money. Because it isn't going to do either.

[SundeepI]

I don't understand how this is useful.
1. it would radiate and fry birds flying above rather opposite to a black panel which is supposed to absorb all the radiation
2. need more space than a conventional photovoltaic. energy/per sq foot of land is low
3. Very expensive. As an engineer, I don't see anything innovative or problem-solving. it needs motors and sun-tracking
systems to work else you are just heating air