Customer: SPX Cooling Technologies

Owner: Google & United States Department of Energy

Location:  Nipton, California, USA

Material Standard: JIS

Fabrication Code: AISC & AWS D1.1. 

Tonnage:  1,364 MT

Duration:  Dec. 2011 ~ Mar. 2012

USSL Project No.: 8973

Project Description:

Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility Project is a $2.2 billion solar thermal power project, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts (MW). The project is developed by BrightSource Energy and Bechtel Power Corporation. 

The project has received an investment of $168 million from Google and a $1.375 billion loan guarantee from the United States Department of Energy. It will deploy 347,000 heliostat mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on centralized solar power towers. 

USSL's scope of this project is steel structure for Air Cooled Codenser (ACC) part.