First 24 Hour Solar Farm Solana Launches In The United States

The Solana solar farm located 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona is the first in the United States to use molten storage technology. It still uses hundreds of parabolic-shaped mirrors to focus the sun's rays, but unlike other concentrated solar power (CSP) facilities, it also uses tanks of molten salt to store huge amounts of heat for long periods of time. This feature allows energy production to continue even when the sun has gone down, making it a breakthrough for the country's renewable energy industry. At a cost of 2 billion, the CSP facility was developed by Spanish company Abengoa Solar and took nearly three years to build.

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