Re: Solar Thermal

Re: Solar Thermal

From what I just heard last night from SRP at a meeting they held on a proposed rate hike. This plant has a few bidders already. There are about 5 companies joining in on the purchase and operation of this new plant.

  It sounds like the selection of the vendor will be soon and construction will start later this year and go on line on 2010. Land seems to be very low in this remote desert area.

  One person also mentioned a abandoned coal plant with grid, water and land ready to get reused for a similar project. That seems like great recycling to me.

   The 250kW range seems a little small for utilities. If they were smart they could start with 250 kW and keep adding each month until they have a large system all running with incremental cost to scale up or down. No long 2 years to go on line. You just never know.

 

the solar stacks

Solar Thermal By: jstack6 (8 replies) Sun, 02/17/2008 - 18:12