[note Project Overview von Solar Reserve:
- Location: Tonopah, Nevada, USA
- Technology: CSP with Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage
- Size: 110 MW facility output
- Storage: 10 hours of full load storage, enabling on-demand energy production day and night
- Electricity Production: More than 500,000 MW-hours annually
- Power Purchaser: 25-year contract with NV Energy
- Homes Powered: 75,000 homes during peak demand
Key Project Benefits:
- No requirement for natural gas or oil back up – completely emission free
- Progresses U.S. clean energy technology with the industry’s most advanced energy storage project
- Energy storage provides a firm, reliable electricity product on-demand, day and night
- Helps meet growing demand for clean, renewable energy sources
- Significantly reduces the use of water for cooling by using an efficient, low-water hybrid cooling system
Economic Benefits:
- Tax Revenues: Project forecasted to generate more than $73 million in local and state tax revenues over first 20 years of operation
- Operating Expenses: During the 30+ year operating life, the project will expend more than $10 million per year in salaries and operating costs, much of this spent in the region
- Capital Investment: Project will generate in excess of $750 million private capital cost investment in Nevada
Job Creation:
- 4,300 direct, indirect and induced jobs created during construction
- 1,050 construction workers on site at the peak period
- Equipment and services purchased across 26 states
- 60% of the project subcontractors were Nevada based
- 45 full-time, permanent jobs for operations and maintenance]
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