Ivanpah Solar Plant, Mojave Desert, CA

The proposed project includes three solar concentrating thermal power plants, based on distributed power tower and heliostat mirror technology, in which heliostat (mirror) fields focus solar energy on power tower receivers near the center of each heliostat array. Each 100 megawatt site would require approximately 850-acres (or 1.3 square miles) and would have three tower receivers and arrays; the 200 megawatt site would require approximately 1,600-acres (or 2.5 square miles) and would have 4 tower receivers and arrays. The total area required for all three phases would including the administration building/operations and maintenance building and substation and be approximately 3,400-acres (or 5.3 square miles). The proposed solar plant projects would share the common facilities mentioned above to include access roads, and the reconductored transmission lines for all three phases.