SEGS parabolic-trough power stations
Centrales SEGS de colectores cilindro-parabólicos
- Date
- 1984 · confidence high
- Place
- Daggett, California, United States
- Credited to
- Luz International (Arnold Goldman)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Nine solar thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert with parabolic-trough mirrors heating oil for a steam cycle, up to 354 MW in total. They were the first large commercial experience with solar thermal power.
SEGS I (13.8 MW) entered service in 1984 and the last plant in 1991.
What it led to
- trough plants in Spain (Andasol) and Morocco (Noor)
- molten salts as storage
- lower solar thermal costs