Concentrated Solar Power - Very Large Scale Solar Power Plants

Very Large Scale Solar Power Plants

There are several proposals for gigawatt size, very large scale solar power plants. They include the Euro-Mediterranean Desertec proposal, Project Helios in Greece (10 gigawatt), and Ordos (2 gigawatt) in China. A 2003 study concluded that the world could generate 2,357,840 TWh each year from very large scale solar power plants using 1% of each of the world's deserts. Total consumption worldwide was 15,223 TWh/year (in 2003). The gigawatt size projects are arrays of single plants. The largest single plant in operation is 80 MW (SEGS VIII and SEGS IX) and the largest single plant in construction is 370 MW (Ivanpah Solar). In 2012, the BLM made available 97,921,069 acres of land in the southwestern United States for solar projects, enough for between 10,000 and 20,000 gigawatts (GW).

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