The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a solar thermal power project with an installed capacity of 110 megawatt (MW) and 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage located near Tonopah, about 190 miles (310 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Crescent Dunes is the first commercial concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. .
In late September 2011 Tonopah Solar Energy received a $737 million from the (DOE) and the right to build on public land. The capital stack included $170,000,000 in .
Crescent Dunes began operation in September 2015, but went off-line in October 2016 due to a leak in a molten salt tank. It returned to operation in July 2017. While its average monthly production was expected to exceed 40,000 ,. .
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The project's was , which carried out the engineering design, procured the equipment and materials necessary, and then constructed and delivered the facility to Tonopah Solar Energy. The project includes 10,347 that. .
• 2012 January – The solar tower under construction as seen from a commercial airliner. The eponymous Crescent Dunes are at lower right. • 2014 December – Completed site as seen from a commercial airliner. .
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