Palen SEGS

Group

General Info

Owner/s: 

  • BrightSource Energy

Technology: 

  • Central receiver (power tower)

Country: 

  • US

Status: 

  • Development

Purpose: 

  • Commercial

Usage: 

  • Electricity

Power: 

500.00 MW

Construction start date: 

Later 2013 (expected)

Start date: 

June, 2016

Location: 

Riverside County, California

Generation: 

1 412.00 GWh
General comments:

The project was initially promoted by Solar Millenium jointly with Chevron, which filed an Application for Certification to build a 500 MW parabolic trough CSP plant.

After Solar Millenium fell bankrupt, BrightSource bought the project and has changed it to use its proprietary BrightSource Energy LPT technology, a central receiver plant (tower).

The project is now designed as two adjacent power tower plants of 250 MW each.

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