Mirror, Mirror on the wall Traditional Cache
Mirror, Mirror on the wall
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Easy park and grab just off of Hyw 395. Log only bring your own pencil.
One of nine solar electric energy generating systems at Kramer Junction, California,
The largest solar electric generating plant in the world produces a maximum of 354 megawatts (MW) of electricity and is located at Kramer Junction, California. This solar energy generating facility, produces electricity for the Southern California Edison power grid supplying the greater Los Angeles area.
The solar collectors concentrate sunlight to heat a heat transfer fluid to a high temperature. The hot heat transfer fluid is then used to generate steam that drives the power conversion subsystem, producing electricity.
A 150 megawatt solar power plant owned by the Kramer Junction Company. This facility is known as "SEGS 3 through 7", and is one of three separate sites within 40 miles of one another which make up a total of nine solar fields in the Solar Electric Generating System (SEGS). Together these three facilities can generate about 354 megawatts at peak output, comprising most of the commercial solar power currently produced worldwide. These solar facilities are referred to as "advantageous peak facilities," as they operate at their peak when it is sunniest, which is also when local power requirements are greatest, due to increased air conditioning demand. The facilities regulate their power supply through the use of supplemental natural gas-fueled electric generating plants. With a peak output of 45 megawatts, SEGS 1 and 2 are at the Dagget Leasing Company's facility just east of Barstow, and Harpers Dry Lake, north of Hinkley is the location of the most powerful of the three facilities, the SEGS 8 and 9, which produce around 160 megawatts at their peak.
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