Crescent Dunes Solar Energy
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Location
Tonopah, NV
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Owner
Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC
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General Contractor
Maui One Excavating, Inc.
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 megawatt (MW) solar thermal power project with 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage, located near Tonopah, about 190 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Crescent Dunes was the first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with a central receiver tower and advanced molten salt energy storage technology from SolarReserve.
