Google is not only the world’s largest search company. There is also the major investor in solar power.
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-Don’t stare at Tower! It can damage your eyes.
He asks us to turn the gaze down where we stand in a sea of polished mirror. 350,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, addressing three towers. Inside the towers, which is higher than the Oslo Plaza, heat from the sun is converted into steam. The steam drives turbines, which generate electricity for 140,000 homes.
This story is from DN energy supplements as follows Monday’s edition of DN.
Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert outside the gambling city of Las Vegas is the world’s first and largest of its kind. The bill came 15 billion.
Google has invested nearly one billion dollars on the project. It is the search company’s largest solar investment so far, but far from the only one. To date, the IT company invested over six billion on 15 different wind and solar project in the United States. The goal? To create a better tomorrow while earning good money, according to their website.
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– Google has been a wonderful partner. It really understand what this is, says director Mitchell Samuelian.
Behind him sits screens from ceiling to floor in Ivanpah circular control. The engineers are still trying to tweak the system.
– This is in fact two systems in one: a giant solar power plant with lots of new technology as well as a large power plant. It makes it very complex to operate, but fortunately we are getting better, says Samuelian, who is ultimately responsible for Ivanpah.
65 people currently work at the-clock shifts at the plant that spreads out over an area which is almost two times larger than the Frogner district in Oslo. The plant has an installed capacity of 392 MW, greater than, for example power plant at Tyin in Sogn og Fjordane. One-third of California’s commercial solar energy comes from Ivanpah.
Uncertain future
America’s Energy facility called a turning point for America’s solar industry at the opening in the winter. Approximately one percent of the country’s electricity needs are met by solar power, but officials expect that percentage will rise sharply in the future. Whether it is due to a number of such enormous facilities, is still doubtful. High cost, limited transmission capacity and the climate targets met with many power companies argue against.
– outlook is mixed in the short term. The order book has been more or less the same since 2012, says solanalytiker Cory Honeyman in GTM Research to industry website Greentech Media.
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