US takes biggest zonnepark in the world officially in use

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In the United States is the largest zonnepark in the world were taken officially in use. The field of mirrors, an area of about 13 square kilometers area, is located on the border of the Us states of California before and Nevada.

The solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, owned by three parties, where Google is one of them, reports Phys.org. The other two involved companies are NRG Energy and BrightSource Energy. The energy production is approximately 377 megawatts; that should be enough to 140.000 households to provide power.

For the entire solar power plant had to be during the construction an amount of $ 2.2 billion to be deposited, by the three companies is paid. Earlier, some 350,000 mirrors have been drawn up jointly by a computer system to be controlled. These mirrors are focused on towers with boilers in which water is heated, which in their turn turbines to control in which electricity is generated from steam. This is not the conventional solar panels that direct sunlight to convert into electricity, but for a concentrated solar power park.

The Ivanpah is the largest solar power plant in the world, but it is likely that in the short term, larger-scale plants to be opened. In several locations are working on large solar farms, including in India. The park would have a capacity of 4 gigawatts, significantly more than Ivanpah.