The project includes 10,347 heliostats that collect and focus the sun's thermal energy to heat molten salt flowing through an approximately 656-foot (200 m) tall [13] solar power tower.CountryUnited StatesLocation, Nye County, NevadaStatusPost-bankruptcy reorganization, restartConstruction began2011OverviewThe Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a project with an installed capacity of 110 (MW) and 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage located near, about 190 miles (310 km) northw. . In late September 2011 Tonopah Solar Energy received a $737 million from the (DOE) and the right to build on public land. The capital stack included $1. . The project's was, which carried out the engineering design, procured the equipment and materials necessary, and then constructed and delivered the facility to Tonopah Solar Energy. Th. . Crescent Dunes began operation in September 2015, but went off-line in October 2016 due to a leak in a molten salt tank. It returned to operation in July 2017. While its average monthly production was expected t.
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