Customer: SPX Cooling Technologies

Owner: Genesis Solar, LLC.

Location: Blythe, California, USA

Material Standard: BS-EN

Fabrication Code: AISC & AWS D1.1.

Tonnage: 2,300 MT

Duration: Dec.2011~Nov.2012

USSL Project No.: 8975

Project Description:

The Genesis Solar Energy Project is located about 25 miles (40 km) west of Blythe, in the Lower Colorado River Valley. The plant was built in the Colorado Desert along an ancient trade route that native people had traveled for thousands of years. The route traversed the Sonoran Desert and enabled trade between the Colorado River and the coast.

Genesis had two 125-MW solar units that produce electricity using steam turbine generators fed from solar steam generators. The solar steam generators would receive heated transfer fluid from solar thermal equipment from arrays of parabolic mirrors that collect energy from the sun.